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Freedom and diversity guard each other, and if a country could form the whole of one's character, Napoleon III and Victor Hugo would have been the same person... if national identity means anything, it means something that comes with you wherever you go, and stays with you no matter how long you stay away.

Clive James
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Clive James's Popular Quotes

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

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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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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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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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