All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Quote by Clive James

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All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid...

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid...

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless...

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless...

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

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

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

As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost...

As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost...

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on...

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on...

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger...

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is...

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is...

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I...

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I...

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life