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Snooker is just chess with balls.
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
Writer
Kogarah
New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
Clive Vivian James
Snooker
Chess
Balls
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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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Whoever called snooker chess with balls was rude, but right.
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Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.
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I actually didn't like that feeling of being out of touch because what I do depends on being in touch. But it's fun to talk about. That's one of the real dangers of drugs: they're too much fun to talk about.
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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
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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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I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!
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