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The last stage of fitting the product to the market is fitting the market to the product.
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Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.
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It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.
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As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
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There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.
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To goad the BBC is a rewarding sport in itself. It makes a tabloid feel like a heavyweight.
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Clive James
Born:
October 7, 1939
Died:
November 24, 2019
(aged 80)
Bio:
Clive James was an Australian critic, broadcaster and writer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1961 until his death in 2019.
Known for:
Unreliable Memoirs (1980)
Latest Readings (2015)
Sentenced to Life (2015)
The Blaze of Obscurity (2009)
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