Clive James

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Clive James


Born
in Sydney, Australia
October 07, 1939

Died
November 24, 2019

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An expatriate Australian broadcast personality and author of cultural criticism, memoir, fiction, travelogue and poetry. Translator of Dante.
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Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan reviewed – archive, 26 July 1973

26 July 1973: Clive James reviews a collection of Dylan’s lyrics, poems, writings and personal drawings

Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan (Cape, £2.50)

For a gentle but rapidly ageing generation, no book ever asked to be read to pieces like Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan. Helpfully, Jonathan Cape have bound its 300-plus pages in pink cardboard, so that it can come to pieces more easily.

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Quotes by Clive James  (?)
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“Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.”
Clive James

“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

“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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