As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father’s belief that a man without a car is not really a man.
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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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As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father’s belief that a man without a car is not really a man.
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When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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We’ve got rid of subeditors because we don’t need them. Because they were never necessary. They were just fetchers and gophers. They had a job, which has been superannuated by technology.
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I always say what I think to be amusing.
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It was fine for my Polish Ashkenazi forebears to live on dumplings and potatoes, because they laboured in the fields. But that diet is unsuitable for an urban lifestyle.
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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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My time in Paris was an education in both the grimness of a relentless, grinding day job and the joys of nights in glittering restaurants.
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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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The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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I have a tailor now, I have a doctor, a wine merchant, a jeweller, a gardener, a cleaner, and a nanny. It was clearly ridiculous that I did not have a hairdresser. So I got one.
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People think you get paid millions by the BBC if you’re famous, but me? Me, I’m in the Premier Inn in Gillingham.
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I used to be so angry. I think back to my early days as a critic in the late 1990s, and I blush.
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You can get a decent mouthful of food in Warsaw or Chad if you look hard enough. It’s just I wouldn’t actually go there looking for the food.
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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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Being a success in the world, having total control of one’s life, is about being able to take or leave things.
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How clever am I? I’m really quite clever. I mean, look, I’ve got a first-class degree from Oxford.
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