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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.

Giles Coren

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
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
I let the other reviewers eat the bad meals, so that I didn’t have to, and my wife and I went out only for the good stuff. And I wrote mostly positive reviews. Not only. But mostly. And, ooooh, it felt an awful lot better.
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Awful Better Feel Felt Good Mostly Review Stuff Wife Wrote
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
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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Bbc Country Million Paid People Premier Think
Where my dad taught me everything about writing, Graham Paterson, who gave me my first job at The Times, taught me everything about journalism, which is that it’s no big deal, and it’s more important to have a glass of wine.
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Dad Everything First Job Laugh Person Taught Time
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
Personally I ride a bicycle, travel by train and bus and campaign tirelessly for a car taxation system that will hammer ignorant, selfish, petty, fat, spoilt, stupid car abusers into giving up their addiction and walking.
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Abuse Campaign Car Hammer Ignorant Pretty Ride Selfish System Talk Taxation Tirelessly Travel Walk
People like me make modern life intolerable.
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Intolerable Life Mark Modern People
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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Being Charm Competitive Competitiveness Concern More Most Try World
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
I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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Greta Labor Thing Think Unionization
Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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Bring Gratification Instant Knee Planet
Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago it predates the invention of trousers.
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Ancient City Country Environmental Human Idea Invention Live Long Not Predate Since Trouser
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
So what on Earth there isn’t to like about New York? I don’t know. But what you do also have is a load of very ordinary restaurants which you make a terrible fuss about which are really only very average. Which is fine. One doesn’t go to New York for the food.
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Average Country Earth Fus Know Load Make Restuarant

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