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I was a big pothead for a short period. That was what ticked me off that I shouldn't go near hard drugs, actually, because I would consume the stuff as if it was going out of style and it rapidly occurred to me that if I ever tried a hard drug, the same thing would happen, so I never did.

Clive James's Popular Quotes

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

- Clive James

Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.

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All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

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Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

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Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

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An education without a Bible education is no education.

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Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

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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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Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts.

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