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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
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All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.Clive James
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If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.Clive James
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Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.Clive James
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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.Clive James
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Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.Clive James
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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
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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
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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.Clive James
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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.Clive James