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The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.
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
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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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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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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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Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.
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On the correctly formed pubescent girl, a Speedo looked wonderful. When it was wet, it was an incitement to riot.
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