- Nov 07, 2020
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- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would not have seemed funny then.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.
- Coloured
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Firmness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.
- Ecclesiastical
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Consummate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.
- Enthusiasm
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- Nov 07, 2020
More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cleanliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cleanliness is the scourge of art.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in the air.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.'
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Christians, Soccerians argue that you should not judge the essence of their faith by the loopy activities of its followers. But the Beautiful Game is in fact quite the opposite. It is badly designed and riddled with flaws.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every golf ball has to stay in motion from the moment it leaves the tee to the moment it plops into the hole, thus obliging each player to run along after his ball and give it another whack before it stops rolling.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bowls
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- Nov 07, 2020
In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played bowls wore blazers.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their preferred disguise.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun dapple our bedroom ceiling.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.
- Brag
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the wealthiest people in the U.S. seem compelled to brag about how humble they are.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020