"Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right."
"Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour."
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Source: Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring. Interview with Ellen Rolfes, December 3, 2013.
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