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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

People like me make modern life intolerable.
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Intolerable Life Mark Modern People
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
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
In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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Beginning City Huddle Own Protection
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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Analysis Angry Break Constant Five Person Physio Thing Use Year
I always say what I think to be amusing.
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Always Anything Say Thing
World cross-fertilization is fantastic. Immigration across the world has led to all kinds of fantastic new and exciting kinds of food being available. And there’s all kinds of different kinds of restaurants.
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Country Cross Different Effort Fantastic Fertilization Line Restaurant Word
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
Have you ever been to the countryside? It’s so small. And there’s nothing to do.
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Been Countryside Do Nothing Small
I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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Always Quite Deny Jewish Twenties Use
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
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
I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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Bad Come Country Press Reputation
The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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Big Dad First Iron Night Olivetti Remember Thing Typewriter Work
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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Age Drill Early Education General Knowledge Most People Quite
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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City Depend Entire Instant Madden Men Million Opinion People Strong Try

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