The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy.
Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive. - Clive James
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. - Clive James
Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer. - Clive James
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.
All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. - Clive James
All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. - Clive James
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.
An education without a Bible education is no education. - Clive James
An education without a Bible education is no education.
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out. - Clive James
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. - Clive James
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts. - Clive James
Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts.
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