Have you ever been to the countryside? It’s so small. And there’s nothing to do.
GILES CORENI 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.
More Giles Coren Quotes
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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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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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When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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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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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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It was fine for my Polish Ashkenazi forebears to live on dumplings and potatoes, because they laboured in the fields. But that diet is unsuitable for an urban lifestyle.
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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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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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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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My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on to the page. For him, writing was a process of making everything appear funny.
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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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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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