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Clive James (born October 10, 1939) in Kogarah, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is an expatriate Australian writer, poet, essayist, critic, and commentator on popular culture. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about James, Clive.

"The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same."

James, Clive on Literary Criticism
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"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."

James, Clive on Television
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"Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive."

James, Clive on Worry
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"All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish."

James, Clive on Cinema
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"As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks."

James, Clive on Critics and Criticism
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