You either get the point of Africa or you don’t. What draws me back year after year is that it’s like seeing the world with the lid off.
A. A. GILLNobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It’s among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They’re not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It’s among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
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A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo’s compliment and fishy as a chancellor’s promise.
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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they’re not allowed into rooms with windows.
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I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn’t watch television when the sun is out.
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Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers’ melt waters to go back
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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they’re both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
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Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we’d like to be seen.
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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