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Clive James
“Even in its latterday form as a behavioural sink, a den of thieves and a bedlam of managerial fatuity, the magna civitas is still a magna solitudo, and a great solitude is what I need, while I work on the long task of forgiving myself for having been born blessed, and for a consuming melancholy that I never earned.”
Clive James, Always Unreliable

Clive James
“Explicability is inimical to it. Talent can be dissected, but not alive.”
Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

Clive James
“If we aren't capable of seeing that the benefit of justice means nothing unless it is extended to those who are too stupid to be worthy of it, we should join the other side.”
Clive James, The Meaning of Recognition

Alfred Polgar
“Many attempt without success to make up for their lack of talent with defects of character.”
Alfred Polgar

Clive James
“Readers my age were made to memorize and recite: their yawns of boredom were discounted. Younger readers have been spared such indignities. Who was lucky? Isn't a form of teaching that avoids all prescription really a form of therapy? In a course called Classical Studies taught by teachers who possess scarcely a word of Latin or Greek, suffering is avoided, but isn't it true that nothing is gained except the absence of suffering?... What have we gained, except a classroom in which no one need feel excluded?”
Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

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