"Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle steamer can take even the most walk-shy tourists to their chosen destination. As a bonus, there is traditionally at least one murder on board each trip--a "consideration" to the head steward will ensure that it is not you."

-- Jasper Fforde

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“Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.”
“I had no problem working for 15 hours straight when I was producing someone else, but I couldn't do it with my own songs. It took that moment of pointing the camera at myself to realize that it was okay to get lost in making my own music. I think before that I was scared of pushing myself to the point of staring into the abyss.”
“There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.”
“Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent.”
“Don't be in too much of a hurry to sell.”
“The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.”
“When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.”
“All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.”

Source : Clive James (2009). “May Week Was In June”, p.204, Pan Macmillan

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