Quotes by Clive James

About Clive James:

Clive James is an Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist, best known for his autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs, for his chat shows and documentaries on British television and for his prolific journalism. He has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since 1962.
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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

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

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Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

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Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

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Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

Clive James

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

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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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All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Clive James

And every writer cherishes the dream of setting the young on fire, even if only by a cigarette butt tossed casually over the shoulder, and when we meet young people who say that they were inspired by what we said to rush off and read the books we wer...

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She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

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A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

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Author Bio

  • NameClive James
  • DescriptionAustralian writer
  • BornOctober 7, 1939
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionWriter
  • WorksCultural Amnesia
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Officer Of The Order Of Australia