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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

Topics: Calls Clue Meant Rather Send Sleep Talk Tend Than Those Up Wake Wake-Up Way Who Words You

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One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Beyond Fun Joys Many Purpose Serve

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Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Admitted Brightly Coloured Discreet Flowers Garden Good Good Taste Grown Idea Only Over Seems Taste Up Vulgar Years

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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.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Aim Being Board Everyone First Floor Gain Ground High High Ground Know Letters Loser Moral Must Now Over Player Scrabble Shut Slam Upset

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Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Am Art Highly Like Losing Many Men Prefer Process Recovery Skilled Things I Am

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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.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Both Eye Firmness Handshake He His Looked Me Met Occasions Straight Struck Too Twice Way

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Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would not have seemed funny then.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Comedy Funny Just Now Seem Seemed Slave Strikes Then Time Unlikely Us Would

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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.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Badly Ball Been Hard Hit Like Look Many Men Myself Net Play Playing Racket Tend Tennis Trying Who

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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.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Effortlessly Eminent Enjoyable Few Few Things Getting Interview Microphone Often Out Person Quite Television Things Watching

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The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Avoid Because Behaviour Common Consider Doing Might Only Others Something Think Truly You

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: May 23rd, 1957

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