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Clive James


Born
in Sydney, Australia
October 07, 1939

Died
November 24, 2019

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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

An expatriate Australian broadcast personality and author of cultural criticism, memoir, fiction, travelogue and poetry. Translator of Dante.

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Clive James's Blog

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Clive James on Trump, War and Peace – and furry bears

From meeting the Queen to his thoughts on Jeremy Corbyn’s beard, here are some choice cuts from the writer’s column in Guardian Weekend magazine

Clive James dies, aged 80

On War and Peace

On a shelf near where I sit writing this, there are half a dozen different editions of the book, and I’ve been reading one or other of them for half my life. Despite the heaps of evidence that Tolstoy was in r...

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Average rating: 3.91 · 9,770 ratings · 1,067 reviews · 71 distinct works • Similar authors
Unreliable Memoirs
3.90 avg rating — 2,936 ratings — published 1980 — 20 editions
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary...
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Falling Towards England
3.84 avg rating — 645 ratings — published 1985 — 8 editions
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Latest Readings
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May Week Was in June
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Play All: A Bingewatcher’s ...
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North Face of Soho
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Flying Visits: Postcards Fr...
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Sentenced to Life: Poems
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Brilliant Creatures
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Unreliable Memoirs Falling Towards England May Week Was in June North Face of Soho The Blaze of Obscurity
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Quotes by Clive James

“Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.”
― Clive James
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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
tags: logic, psychology, science
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“She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.”
― Clive James
tags: marilyn-monroe
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