Quotes About Clive James

I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."

Funny Debates at both Cambridge and Oxford eventually helped to convince me that the only place to be amusing is in a serious context.

Man and Superman: "the audience gets an exhausting idea of the inexhaustibility of the subject, and is bored brilliantly.

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

A LL THE ENTRIES in Freud's diary of his last decade are short. Very few are more than one line long.

In 1942 he was saying—saying without crying, and God alone knows how—that the Jews would have to be withdrawn from Europe after the war and go to their new home.

thumbnail sketch of his life would include two main facts:

and he wrote the single most famous poem about the death camps, "Todesfuge" (Death Fugue).

When he was asked about the technical secret of his jump, he said:

Auschwitz, where she wound up in a block for young girls.

Mercifully, in evoking her girls' dormitory, she restricts herself to one scene.

The poverty of his son has diminished, apparently, but we are assured that Annan had no direct responsibility for that.)

Today, they separately demonstrate what a luxury it is to be a stable, prosperous, democratic nation with a dependable constitution.

Her novels, which I have not yet read, are usually described as the work of a writer's writer, or perhaps of someone who has been to the Institute for the Theory of Literature in Zagreb.

He committed suicide in 1794 because the Revolutionary authorities had made it clear that they planned to reward his irreverent wit with a visit to the guillotine.

Marc Bloch was born in 1886, fought in World War I,

Whoever said "Wagner's music isn't as bad as it sounds" was as wrong as he was funny,

His advocacy and understanding of Victor Hugo led to a close friendship,

Cocteau thought of his own images. He really was as innovative as his admirers said. Their only mistake was to imagine that novelty was an ethos.