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I always say what I think to be amusing.

Giles Coren

My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on to the page. For him, writing was a process of making everything appear funny.
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I sleep nine hours every night, I have a little nap after lunch, and, if I’m going out for dinner, I sneak in an extra one before I head out.
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I used to be a very angry person, I used to throw things and break them. Then I had five years of constant psycho-analysis, and I don’t get angry any more.
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I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.
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It doesn’t matter how much of a hurry you think you are in. Be one of the people for whom ten minutes does not make a difference.
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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago it predates the invention of trousers.
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The good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.
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I tried to leave the city once, for one of those other places. And, my God, the silence. I could hear myself think, and found that I wasn’t. I am not designed to be lonely as a cloud.
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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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I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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I let the other reviewers eat the bad meals, so that I didn’t have to, and my wife and I went out only for the good stuff. And I wrote mostly positive reviews. Not only. But mostly. And, ooooh, it felt an awful lot better.
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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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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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