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“ The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish. ”

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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

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

~ Clive James

If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.

~ Clive James

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.

~ Clive James