The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
GILES CORENI used to be so angry. I think back to my early days as a critic in the late 1990s, and I blush.
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All I care about is that people who like me think I’m funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff.
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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 would go swaggering into restaurants in some ridiculous tramp disguise, challenging them to mistreat me, order the things I was least likely to enjoy, then hurl my plate aside in a fury and demand to see the manager.
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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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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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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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As a broadly left-wing, environmentally aware urban believer in anthropogenic global warming, I am all for a total ban on motor vehicles.
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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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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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He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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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 tell people I spent almost a year in Paris, I know they imagine something out of a Woody Allen movie, which it wasn’t, of course. I was just working in a clothes shop, but I was aware that it was exciting.
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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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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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