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- “Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.” ― Clive James.
- “Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.” ― Clive James.
- “She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.” ― Clive James.
- “If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.” ― Clive James.
- It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. Clive James. Witty, Powerful, Science.
- A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all. Clive James. Wisdom, Good Life, America.
- Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.
- Fiction is life with the dull bits left out. Clive James. Wisdom, Fiction, Dull.
- Visions Before Midnight
- At The Pillars of Hercules
- The Crystal Bucket
- From The Land of Shadows
- Glued to The Box
- Flying Visits
- Snakecharmers in Texas
- Clive James on Television
- The Dreaming Swimmer
- As of This Writing
Reprints of selected television reviews from The Observer, published by Jonathan Cape in 1977. 1. Every week I watch Stuart Hall on It's A Knock-Out and realise with renewed despair that the most foolish thing I ever did was to turn in my double-0 licence and hand back that Walther PPK with the short silencer. 1.1. 'Eddie Waring Communicates'
It's yet another mark of Auden's superiority that whereas his contemporaries could be didactic about what they had merely thought or read, Auden could be tentative about what he felt in his bones.
Probably it is only in free countries, however, that a humorous regard for corruption is possible. In the totalitarian countries, corrupt from top to bottom, nobody is laughing because nothing is l...
One of the many services performed by Professor Smith's book is to show that Nuremberg was not a kangaroo court. Even the Russian and the French judges were able to act with some independence from...
Reprints of selected television reviews from The Observer1979 to 1982. 1. Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it. 1.1. 'Introduction' 1. Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world. 1.1. 'Introduction' 1. The li...
To me [Sydney Opera House] looks like a portable typewriter full of oyster shells, and to the contention that it echoes the sails of yachts on the harbour I can only point out that the yachts on th...
Speer got quite a lot done in Berlin and if hostilities had not started early he would have transformed it utterly, with consequences far more hideous than anything achieved by the RAF.
Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgement and should be trusted...
Schnabel said that Beethoven's late piano sonatas are music better than could be played. Larkin's best poems are poetry better than can be said, but sayability they sumptuously offer. Larkin demand...
The question of originality, if it arises at all, can never be peripheral: originality is more than a requirement in good poetry, it is a description of it.
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Discover Clive James famous and rare quotes. Share funny quotes by Clive James and quotations about writing and tennis. "I try to be specific. One thought at..."
Nov 28, 2019 · The late Australian polymath and poet shared his views on various topics, from his Australian-ness to his infidelity, in interviews and poems. Read some of his memorable and blunt outlooks on life, from his farewell to his criticism of Jon Snow.
