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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.

Giles Coren

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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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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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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My sister’s also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.
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Have you ever been to the countryside? It’s so small. And there’s nothing to do.
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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 way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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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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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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People think you get paid millions by the BBC if you’re famous, but me? Me, I’m in the Premier Inn in Gillingham.
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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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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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Gentile smoked salmon is all… muscular and smells of smoke. It’s not very fatty. They don’t understand – smoked salmon should be almost spreadable! So you give them the real stuff and they can’t believe how delicious it is.
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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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My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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When I was 16 my dad taught me to drive too. Furiously. Unable to understand why I couldn’t already do it – for driving, to him, was innate in the human. It was what separated us from the apes. And from the French, who weren’t much good at it either.
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