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" Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger. "
Craig Brown
Men
Ask
Know
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" Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard. "
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Trying
Look
" How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.' "
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Game
" Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp. "
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Like
Way
Touch
" Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence. "
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Blazer
Complete
Confidence
" Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away. "
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Away
Who
Spiders
" Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it. "
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Odd
Leap
Discomfort
" The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertainingly, as possible. "
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Think
Book
Treat
" The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common. "
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Doing
You
Think
" Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time. "
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People
See
Time
" Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process. "
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Like
Losing
Process
" For some reason, it is always thrilling to spot your home town in the news. "
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Always
Town
Your
" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "
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Scourge
Cleanliness
Art
" When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks. "
Craig Brown
Black
School
Long
" Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But those who talk of wake-up calls tend to have an easy-going way with words. "
Craig Brown
Sleep
Way
Up
" Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster. "
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Tweeting
Medium
" It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other. "
Craig Brown
House
Golf
Great
" The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house. "
Craig Brown
Hey
First
Your
" Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously. "
Craig Brown
Results
Seriously
Myself
" What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now. "
Craig Brown
Past
Interesting
Way
" Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in a house strewn with rubbish. "
Craig Brown
House
Books
Good
" Women are more sensitive, more practical, more intelligent, more balanced, better able to deal with people, better cooks, better parents, better carers, better leaders, and so on and so forth. "
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People
Women
Parents
" By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher. "
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Large
Establishment
Artistic
" More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences. "
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News
Find
Consequences
" The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another. "
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People
News
Saying
" As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip. "
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You
Always
Keys
" Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor. "
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Moral
Loser
Know
" There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time. "
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Procrastination
You
Nothing
" Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences. "
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Game
Live
Life
" I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too. "
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Handshake
Way
Eye
" As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish. "
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Thumb
Pond
Fish