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.
GILES CORENI always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
More Giles Coren Quotes
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In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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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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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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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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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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I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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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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I always say what I think to be amusing.
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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious 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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When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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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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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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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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