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Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.

~Craig Brown

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For some reason, it is always thrilling to spot your home town in the news.

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When I was a boy, I used to stay with a school friend in Bexhill, in Sussex, which was then well-known for being the town with more oldies than any other. Aged ten, I felt slightly embarrassed by this, though I'm not sure why.

~Craig Brown

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The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.

~Craig Brown

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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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In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for some reason, television is more compelling than real life.

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Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

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As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.

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You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.

~Craig Brown

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Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

~Craig Brown

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: May 23rd, 1957

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