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Clive James
Australian
Writer
About the author
Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.
Clive James,
Australian
Writer
#Right
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
Clive James,
Australian
Writer
#Life
#Fiction
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
Clive James,
Australian
Writer
#Being
#Confusion
A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
Clive James,
Australian
Writer
#Life
#Fame
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James,
Australian
Writer
#Wrong
#Machines
Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
Clive James,
Australian
Writer
#Man
#Fire
#Moments
#Tranquility
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
Clive James,
Australian
Writer
#World
#Television
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
Clive James,
Australian
Writer
#Right
#Technology
#America
#University
Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.
Clive James,
Australian
Writer
#Dancing