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More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Consequences Find Game Like More More And More News Particularly Random Reads

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One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.

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Topics: Equal Life Money Proportions Roughly Sense Tricks

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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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Topics: About Average Bubble Critics Done Enthusiasm More Often Plays Pretty Really Said Than Theatre

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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.

~Craig Brown

Topics: About Author Best Book Critics Describe Detective Friend Honestly Instead Intelligent Like Might Possible Reader Suspect Think Treat Worry Worrying Would

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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.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Always Am Any Astonished Cameras Clean Down Dropped Good Homes How Interviewing Living Look Nothing Old Out Over People Place Rooms Shoulders Television Tend Unnecessary Whenever I Am

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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.

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Topics: Also Been Books Good House Instance Most Productive Rubbish Some Strewn Writers Wrote

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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.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Andrew Combine Compulsion Creatures Discomfort Extreme Leap Odd Seem Spotlight Those Unstoppable Who

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The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another.

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Topics: Another Daft Full Increasingly News People Saying Things

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The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Around Being British Discomfort Festival Found Love New Outlet Pop Seems

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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

Topics: Air Car Drunks Football Hoot Out Scream Squeeze Sure Windows You

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: May 23rd, 1957

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