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 JamesStichwörter: science psychology logic
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive JamesAnyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
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There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.
Clive JamesWhen absolute power is on offer, talent fights to get in.
Clive JamesFriedell caught the essential truth about people prone to catch-all theories: they aren’t in search of the truth, they’re in search of themselves.
Clive JamesDevotees who say that À la recherche du temps perdu reminds them of a cathedral should be asked which cathedral they mean. It reminds me of a sandcastle that the tide reached before its obsessed constructor could finish it; but he knew that would happen, or else why build it on a beach?
Clive JamesPhilosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.
Clive JamesAll intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.
Clive JamesStichwörter: politics power corruption ideology
Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.
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