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" My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day. "
Craig Brown
Captain
Day
Father
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" One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions. "
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" 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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Treat
" When I tell people I don't own a mobile phone and wouldn't know how to text, they react as though I have just confessed that I can't read. "
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" 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
" Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it. "
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You
Want
" Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game. "
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Clear
Will
" 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. "
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School
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" For some reason, it is always thrilling to spot your home town in the news. "
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Town
Your
" In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played bowls wore blazers. "
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Club
Who
People
" 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
" Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every golf ball has to stay in motion from the moment it leaves the tee to the moment it plops into the hole, thus obliging each player to run along after his ball and give it another whack before it stops rolling. "
Craig Brown
Said
Run
Moment
" There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing. "
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Interview
Person
Television
" Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster. "
Craig Brown
Tweeting
Medium
" 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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Beautiful
Little
Game
" When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in the air. "
Craig Brown
Car
Air
You
" The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun dapple our bedroom ceiling. "
Craig Brown
Sun
Sea
First
" The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another. "
Craig Brown
People
News
Saying
" 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. "
Craig Brown
Game
Live
Life
" The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house. "
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Hey
First
Your
" 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
" Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free gift. "
Craig Brown
Looking Back
Childhood
Gift
" Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one. "
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Only
Sensitive
" It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure. "
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Lonely
Old Friends
Football
" It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril. "
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Spells
You
Peril
" More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average. "
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Said
Theatre
Done
" There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time. "
Craig Brown
Procrastination
You
Nothing
" Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their preferred disguise. "
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Eye
Like
People
" Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms. I am always astonished at how clean they all look, with nothing out of place or unnecessary or dropped down any old how. "
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Look
Good
I Am
" 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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Know
" 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