“ Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ”
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“ Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world. ”
- Clive James- Copy
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“ As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks. ”
- Clive James- Copy
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“ As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks. ”
- Clive James- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Clive James- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations. ”
- Clive James- Copy
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“ Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world. ”
- Clive James- Copy
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“ In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service. ”
- Clive James- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Clive James- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Clive James- Copy
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“ The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations. ”
- Clive James- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Clive James- Copy
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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- Copy
- 2.3K
“ In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service. ”
- Clive James- Copy
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