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People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.
Clive James
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Clive James
Age: 80 †
Born: 1939
Born: October 7
Died: 2019
Died: November 24
Author
Broadcaster
Literary Critic
Poet
Television Presenter
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Kogarah
New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
Clive Vivian James
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Good
People
Anyways
Stopped
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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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My niece is - her name is Sasha, is currently learning Russian at Melbourne University and I look forward to the day when I can talk to her about Pushkin.
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A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.
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Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.
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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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John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.
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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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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
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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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Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.
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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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Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.
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Whoever called snooker chess with balls was rude, but right.
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Snooker is just chess with balls.
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