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I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.
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
Literary Critic
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Kogarah
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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In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I speak, it looked like a scorched beer-coaster or a tenderized disc brake.
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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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Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.
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Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.
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Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.
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The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.
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Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.
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Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
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Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.
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Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.
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You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.
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It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.
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Whoever called snooker chess with balls was rude, but right.
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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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I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.
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My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn't really mean that I'm finished reading.
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Young men especially - I don't know if young women feel much the same - but young men think they are immortal, automatically. They have no idea of time because they have so much energy and I was like that.
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