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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.

Giles Coren

My dad Alan loved Westerns and we watched them together when there wasn’t much else on TV. I had toy cowboys I’d call Richard Widmark or Gregory Peck and we’d restage the Battle of the Alamo.
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Battle Call Country Cowboy Dad Else Love Much My Restage Together Watch
At home, we have fish and greens, fish and greens – maybe salmon steak with curried lentils. No poncy cooking goes on, we don’t have dinner parties, we don’t entertain.
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Curried Fish Green Home Lentis Salmon Steak
I always say what I think to be amusing.
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Always Anything Say Thing
Have you ever been to the countryside? It’s so small. And there’s nothing to do.
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Been Countryside Do Nothing Small
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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Actual Decent Enough Food Hard Lok Mouthful Wound
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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Class Clever Country Degree First Look Mean
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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Fetch Gopher Job Need Subeditor Supernatural Technology
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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Car City Cling Desert Driver Father Great Man More Really Without
Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.
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Complain Country Develop Food Friend Gradually Restaurant Taught
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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All Appear Dad Darkness Everything Funny Inner Made Make Page Problem Rage Really Though Wrote
I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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Communist Important Journalist Know More Most Newspaper
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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Both Day Education Glitter Grimness Grind Job Joy Relentless Restaurant Time
In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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Beginning City Huddle Own Protection
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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Anticipate Being Far Food Gone Meal Motion Pleasure Quite
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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Country Dumpling Field Fine Forebear Labour Lifestyle People Polish Potato Unsuitable Urban
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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Angry Back Blush Critic Day Early Late Think Use

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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