I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.
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.
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out. - Clive James
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
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.
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.
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.
Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts. - Clive James
Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts.
An education without a Bible education is no education. - Clive James
An education without a Bible education is no education.
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.
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