Australian - Writer | October 7, 1939 -
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
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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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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
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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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She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
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Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.
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Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
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Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.
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Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
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