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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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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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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.
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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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The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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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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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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I’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.
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Mineral water is a preposterous vanity, either bottled in glass which is stupidly heavy to freight, or in plastic that ends up in one of the plastic patches the size of Texas occupying our oceans.
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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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I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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I used to be a very angry person, I used to throw things and break them. Then I had five years of constant psycho-analysis, and I don’t get angry any more.
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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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I always say what I think to be amusing.
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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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