"Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right."
"Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet."
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Source: Clive James (1983). “Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82”, Jonathan Cape
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