The good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.
GILES CORENThe world’s most competitive man, my dad. Wouldn’t let us win at Monopoly… he wouldn’t cut any slack for his children.
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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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The world’s most competitive man, my dad. Wouldn’t let us win at Monopoly… he wouldn’t cut any slack for his children.
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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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I had become mean and stupid and deliberately hurtful because that is what is expected of restaurant critics. Of critics in general.
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A man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in that instant is a disastrous thing in a city of 10 million people just trying to muddle through.
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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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I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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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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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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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 always say what I think to be amusing.
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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.
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I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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People like me make modern life intolerable.
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