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A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water.
Clive James
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Clive James
Age: 80 †
Born: 1939
Born: October 7
Died: 2019
Died: November 24
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Broadcaster
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New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
Clive Vivian James
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Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.
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I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.
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Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.
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Sometimes I feel if I was young again, I would wrap a bandana around my head like Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and I would become a pirate of the Web. And I would go around stealing poems and assembling into one spot like a treasure cave.
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The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
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She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.
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