Clive James Quote Explained: First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

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I’ve only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better.

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Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

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The inevitable effect of a biographer’s hindsight is to belittle the subject’s foresight.

- Clive James

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All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.

- Clive James

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You can’t be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

- Clive James

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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

- Clive James

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All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

- Clive James

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A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

- Clive James

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First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

I’ve only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better.

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

The inevitable effect of a biographer’s hindsight is to belittle the subject’s foresight.

All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.

You can’t be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible.

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

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