# Quote — Clive James, May Week Was In June

> I was officially advised that during the long vacation it might be profitable to attain at least a nodding acquaintance with the curriculum, and thus stave off the already likely possibility that I would receive a degree classified so low it would be tantamount to a certificate of mental disability.

- Author: [Clive James](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clive-james.md)
- Book: [May Week Was In June](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clive-james/may-week-was-in-june.md)
- Page: 45
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/clive-james/may-week-was-in-june/i-was-officially

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> All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. There was a time when I got hot under the collar if the critics said I had nothing new to say. Now I realise that they had a point. My field is the self-evident. Everything I say is obvious, although I like to think that some of the obvious things I have said were not so obvious until I said them.

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> On the surface of the water, a midge vanishes into a hungry ripple. I'm not ready yet. He wonders why, at his age and having come so far, he still feels that. The culmination of his luck is that he will never feel any other way.

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