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Craig Brown


English
May 23, 1957
Critic
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Cleanliness is the scourge of art.


Craig Brown
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
Craig Brown
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A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.


Craig Brown
Tags: Been Any Long
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
Tags: Time You Only
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
Craig Brown
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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
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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
Tags: Know Even Back
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
Tags: Like About Just
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
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