All I care about is that people who like me think I’m funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff.
GILES CORENIt 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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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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The notion of getting pleasure from food has gone too far; we can also get pleasure from anticipating a meal, and from not being quite sated.
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Mineral water is a preposterous vanity, either bottled in glass which is stupidly heavy to freight, or in plastic that ends up in one of the plastic patches the size of Texas occupying our oceans.
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World cross-fertilization is fantastic. Immigration across the world has led to all kinds of fantastic new and exciting kinds of food being available. And there’s all kinds of different kinds of restaurants.
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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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I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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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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I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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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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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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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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He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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