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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

Topics: Common Common Sense Dancing Different Humor Just Moving Same Same Thing Sense Sense Of Humor Speeds Thing

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

~Clive James

Topics: Fame Good Good Life Life No Life Without

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

~Clive James

Topics: Abstract Being Confusion Good Midget Playing Same She Short Way

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

~Clive James

Topics: Balls Chess Right Rude Whoever

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

~Clive James

Topics: Even Fire Like Man Moments Sounds Tranquility Trousers Walker Whose

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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

~Clive James

Topics: Afraid Anyone Does He Just Television Thinks World

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

~Clive James

Topics: Go How Machines Only Powerful Remind Wrong You

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

~Clive James

Topics: Dancing Disco Endless Giant Just Knocking Moron Nail Steady

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Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

~Clive James

Topics: Bits Dull Fiction Left Life Out

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

~Clive James

Topics: America Degree Even Everyone Hamburger Right Technology University

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Writer

Born: October 7th, 1939

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