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Clive James Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: australian
Birth: October 7, 1939

Topics

Life Good Good Life Fame Without

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

Job People Performance Done Disgust

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.

God Opportunity Health Right Person

I'm obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.

Myself Day Bath Sometimes Three

My family has big business background, and I like to stay busy, too.

Family Business Busy Big Stay Like

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.

Life Live King People Me Look

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

Game Secrets Play Want Seem Like

A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of strength running through it that stimulates individual students to participate so that it is not necessary to keep their attention through direct 'individualized' treatment.

Strength Art Understanding Attention

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Mary Wilson Little

Success People You Bored Success Is

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

People Mind Ideas Interesting New

I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.

Good Humility People World Think

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

Writing Isolation Done Cave Lived

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

History Exercise Funeral Contemporary

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