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Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.
— Clive James
The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
— Clive James
It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place.
— Clive James
Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
— Clive James
An education without a Bible education is no education.
— Clive James
Finally you get to the age when a book's power to make you think becomes the first thing you notice about it.
— Clive James
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
— Clive James
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
— Clive James
They had a ... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.
— Clive James
I've only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better.
— Clive James
A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.
— Clive James
Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.
— Clive James
Some people are different, and so are the rest of us.
— Clive James
If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.
— Clive James
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
A sense of humour is common sense dancing.
— Clive James
The girls had to kneel all night on the parade ground waiting to see one of their number punished
— Clive James
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.
— Clive James
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.
— Clive James
And he wrote the single most famous poem about the death camps, "Todesfuge" (Death Fugue).
— Clive James
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
— Clive James
Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.
— Clive James
(Shake an aphorism, he said, and in most cases a lie falls out, leaving only a banality.)
— Clive James
The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.
— Clive James
I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.
— Clive James
Tom Stoppard has said that the trouble with bad art is that the artist knows exactly what he's doing.)
— Clive James
Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.
— Clive James
That amazing thing doesn't need my poem, but my poem still needs it, the way every poem still needs all the world.
— Clive James
A man who wants to find out who he really is should try watching the woman he loves as she dances the tango with a maestro.
— Clive James
Stop worrying - nobody gets out of this world alive.
— Clive James
a poem is never finished, only abandoned,
— Clive James
Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.
— Clive James
Marc Bloch was born in 1886, fought in World War I,
— Clive James
Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.
— Clive James
John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.
— Clive James
Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out.
— Pierce Brosnan
On the correctly formed pubescent girl, a Speedo looked wonderful. When it was wet, it was an incitement to riot.
— Clive James
I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!
— Clive James
The driving force of any ideology stands revealed: it can't be coherent without being intolerant.
— Clive James
(Of Marilyn Monroe) She was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short
— Clive James
Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.
— Clive James
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
— Clive James
Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds ... What do they think of in the other nine?
— Clive James
The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB
— Clive James
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
— Clive James
I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.
— Clive James
he was a slave labourer under the Nazis,
— Clive James
