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Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.

~Charlie Brooker

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The fashion industry is an immense cultural and social blight that only gets a free pass because its would-be detractors are scared it'll start criticising their haircut.

~Charlie Brooker

Topics: Because Cultural Fashion Fashion Industry Free Gets Haircut Immense Industry Only Pass Scared Social Start Would-Be

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Short of finding a place on the witness protection programme, you don't get many opportunities to completely reinvent your life. Going to university changes that. Away from home, away from parents, away from anyone who remembers you from school, you can pretend to be far cooler and more experienced than you are.

~Charlie Brooker

Topics: Anyone Away Changes Cooler Experienced Far Finding Get Going Home Life Many More Opportunities Parents Place Pretend Programme Protection Reinvent Remembers School Short Than University Who Witness You Your

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We're inseparable, games and I. If you cut me, I'd bleed pixels. Or blood. Probably blood, come to think of it.

~Charlie Brooker

Topics: Bleed Blood Come Cut Games Inseparable Me Think You

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When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic, and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.

~Charlie Brooker

Topics: Attempt Being Communicate Course Earnest Moral Never People Sarcastic Should Think You

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Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.

~Charlie Brooker

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I can't imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a net.

~Charlie Brooker

Topics: Ball Colour Delight Face Imagine Kicks Net Painting Roaring Team

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I haven't always been the kind of man who plays videogames. I used to be the kind of boy who played videogames.

~Charlie Brooker

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Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds.

~Charlie Brooker

Topics: Across Audience Audience Member Bad Because Better Clouds Collect Compared Compelled Even Ever Games Get Giant Jump Member Mushroom Obviously Opera Press Say Some Though

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It's hard to think of a single human function that technology hasn't somehow altered, apart perhaps from burping. That's pretty much all we have left.

~Charlie Brooker

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: March 3rd, 1971

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