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Craig Brown

English Critic

Born: May 23, 1957

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There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time. Craig Brown

Time You Procrastination Nothing Only Wrong Leave Decide

It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure. Craig Brown

Sometimes Old Lonely Old Friends Sole Football Feel Arms Reveal Friends Survivor Being Themselves Hard Succumbed Film Zombie Lure Last

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice. Craig Brown

Fashion Justice Beard Long Been Item Any Decent Fugitive Number

Cleanliness is the scourge of art. Craig Brown

Art Cleanliness Scourge

Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free gift. Craig Brown

Gift Free Looking Looking Back Breakfast Back Spent Some Arm Around Were Childhood Breakfast Cereal Happiest Cereal Moments

Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp. Craig Brown

Way Those Out Hat Wearing Touch Blazer Self-Consciousness Like Obstinacy Bowler Pinch Camp Persist Who Even

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

Rule Say Would More Thumb Smaller Fish Pond Rough Belligerent

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

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

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

You Words Way Those Easy-Going Rather Tend Talk Calls Wake Up Than Send Wording Clue Meant Who Sleep

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

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

It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril. Craig Brown

You Spells Only Peril Happen

My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day. Craig Brown

Day Queen Father Own Battalion Cameron After Landed Captain

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

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

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

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

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

Home News Some Thrilling Town Spot Always Your Reason Home Town

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

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. Craig Brown

You About Something Empty Makes Just Want Full Skip Fill

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. Craig Brown

Life Real Life Nothing Strangers Television Would Would-Be Some More Around Real Trailing Than After Reason Compelling Two Tedious

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

Life Money Sense Tricks Proportions Equal Roughly

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

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

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

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