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When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.

Giles Coren

We built walls around them with slits through which to fire arrows at scary, cross-eyed rural people, and brought our food and family inside because they were the safest places to be.
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Arrow Brought Build Cross Family Food Inside People Place Rural Safety Scary Wall
Where my dad taught me everything about writing, Graham Paterson, who gave me my first job at The Times, taught me everything about journalism, which is that it’s no big deal, and it’s more important to have a glass of wine.
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Dad Everything First Job Laugh Person Taught Time
So what on Earth there isn’t to like about New York? I don’t know. But what you do also have is a load of very ordinary restaurants which you make a terrible fuss about which are really only very average. Which is fine. One doesn’t go to New York for the food.
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Average Country Earth Fus Know Load Make Restuarant
I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people.
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Age Drill Early Education General Knowledge Most People Quite
My sister’s also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.
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Being Charm Competitive Competitiveness Concern More Most Try World
I was 41 when I became a dad. I try to be as much fun as my father was, but I’m at home more – and less of a disciplinarian.
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Alone Become Dad Father Home More
My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn’t want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.
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Dad Journalist Novelist One Successful Want
I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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Communist Important Journalist Know More Most Newspaper
I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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Bad Come Country Press Reputation
There is nothing wrong with getting a bus. Nothing in any way demeaning about boarding a huge smelly communal vehicle that will rumble noisily and very slowly in the vague direction of the place you need to get to and then dump you half a mile away in the freezing wind and rain.
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Bus Getting Nothing With Wrong
The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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Big Dad First Iron Night Olivetti Remember Thing Typewriter Work
Gentile smoked salmon is all… muscular and smells of smoke. It’s not very fatty. They don’t understand – smoked salmon should be almost spreadable! So you give them the real stuff and they can’t believe how delicious it is.
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Delicious Fatty Feel Muscular Real Smell Smoke Stuff Understand
In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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Beginning City Huddle Own Protection
As a broadly left-wing, environmentally aware urban believer in anthropogenic global warming, I am all for a total ban on motor vehicles.
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Anthropogenic Aware Ban Believer Environment Left Motor Urban Vehicle Wing
He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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Column Evening Punch Staffer Standard Time Wrote
When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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Inhabit Me Not Personally Write

When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.

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