In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
GILES CORENThe way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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Personally I ride a bicycle, travel by train and bus and campaign tirelessly for a car taxation system that will hammer ignorant, selfish, petty, fat, spoilt, stupid car abusers into giving up their addiction and walking.
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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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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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Of course you can get a decent mouthful of food in New York. You can get a decent mouthful of food in Nairobi.
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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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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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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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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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People like me make modern life intolerable.
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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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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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I would go swaggering into restaurants in some ridiculous tramp disguise, challenging them to mistreat me, order the things I was least likely to enjoy, then hurl my plate aside in a fury and demand to see the manager.
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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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