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| Clive James
A dream interviewee, talking in eerily quotable sentences whose
English has the faintly extraterritorial perfection of a Conrad or a
Nabokov.
-A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail. Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. In his quieter moments he sounds like his trousers are on fire.
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on...
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