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“Nowadays you have to go pretty far south in Italy before you encounter the widespread belief that any foreign girl is a whore unless her father and two brothers drive her around in an armoured car.”
― Clive James, Falling Towards England

“The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.”
― Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

“Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.”
― Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs

“There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.”
― Clive James

“The future belongs to crowds.”
― Don DeLillo, Mao II

“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis