"John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building."

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Clive James

#Tennis Quotes #Looks Quotes #Building Quotes

“I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.”
“Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.”

Source : John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press
“Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.”
“With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasyâ€”something a lot of people didnâ€™t notice and maybe still donâ€™t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the clichÃ© archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.”
“For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.”
“The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of distortion, they're just not digital distortion.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.”
“You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.”

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