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People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Crash Crashes Different Different Stages Fact Going In Fact Lots Off Orderly People Same Same Time Stages Think Time Waves

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Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Alike Back Dinner Dinner Party Even Evening Guests Hosts Irritation Know Minds Party Preferable Somewhere Source Spent Television Untold Watching Watching Television

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Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Chance Consolation Cook Difficult Dinner Eat Forget Going Great How Many Need Nothing Out People Quite Same Same Time See Something Stranger Talk Time Up Wash Without

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By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Artistic Establishment Large Margaret Margaret Thatcher Thatcher

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Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Day Deciding Five Further Good Minutes Myself New Once Read Results Seriously Speaking Spend Surveys Take Ten Ten Minutes Them Whether

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Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Also End Infinitely Irritation Lacking May Monopoly Provided Scrabble Subtle Tears Tensions

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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.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Been Before Board Bringing Clear Consulting Dictionary First Game Generally Grow He Insisted Irritated Making Occurs Often Opponents Placed Scrabble Table Throughout Will

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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.

~Craig Brown

Topics: About Around Bicycle Black Bread Expect Just Like Little Long Necks Onions School Sticks Strings Textbooks Used Wear Young

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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.

~Craig Brown

Topics: How Just Know Mobile Own People Phone React Read Tell Text Though

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What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Above Beyond Exist Interesting Introduce Lived Most Our Past Present Reminding Streets Tell Us Way Where Who Without Would

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: May 23rd, 1957

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