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Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.
Clive James
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Clive James
Age: 80 †
Born: 1939
Born: October 7
Died: 2019
Died: November 24
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New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
Clive Vivian James
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Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.
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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 Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.
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If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive.
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Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?
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The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
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Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet.
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His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.
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First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.
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I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.
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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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When I was young I never believed that Australia was anything else except blessed. I thought it was a little dull when I was young, but that was 'cause I was a snob.
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A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.
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