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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.

Giles Coren

But still I can never shake the feeling that buses are somehow beneath me. Which is why I have a rule regarding their use: I never, ever run for one. And nor should you.
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Beneath Bus Feel Regard Rule Run Shake Somehow Still
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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Arrow Brought Build Cross Family Food Inside People Place Rural Safety Scary Wall
My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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Anywhere Best Columnist Dad Funny Good Newspaper Nobody
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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Dinner Every Extra Head Hour Little Nap Night Nine Out Sleep Sneak
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
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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Delicious Fatty Feel Muscular Real Smell Smoke Stuff Understand
I have a tailor now, I have a doctor, a wine merchant, a jeweller, a gardener, a cleaner, and a nanny. It was clearly ridiculous that I did not have a hairdresser. So I got one.
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Clearly Doctor Gardner Hairdresser Many Merchant Ridiculous Tailor
The good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.
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Came Fortune Glitter Good Job Life Night There Tyrn
When I tell people I spent almost a year in Paris, I know they imagine something out of a Woody Allen movie, which it wasn’t, of course. I was just working in a clothes shop, but I was aware that it was exciting.
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Cloth Excite Imagine Movie People Shop Sometime Work Year
The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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Possible Serious Thing Turn Way Write
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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Being Control Have Leave Life One Success Take Thing Word
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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Dad Journalist Novelist One Successful Want
I always say what I think to be amusing.
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Always Anything Say Thing
In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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Beginning City Huddle Own Protection
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
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

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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