Love Quote by Clive James

“I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.”

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Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts.

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The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London…

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

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I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write…

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A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water.

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One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.

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Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

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“Too many of my friends are dead, and others wrecked By various diseases of the intellect Or failing body. How am I still upright?…

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Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.

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Everyone needs someone to love, and I choose you.

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