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Useful though they are, the vast majority of dictionaries and encyclopedias are poker-faced pieces of work that stick to the facts and present them as soberly - and unstylishly - as possible. Terry Teachout

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Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris. Thomas Gold Appleton

Good Paris Go American Die

All you care about with your parents is that they are happy, and my mother is exceptionally happy at the moment, and I've always adored my stepfather, and he's always been a kind and good and lovely man. Tom Parker Bowles

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I travel as light as possible and usually pack in less than a minute. If I'm going somewhere hot, I throw in some flip-flops, T-shirts and shorts - but I still pack clothes that I never use. Tom Parker Bowles

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My father would go shopping, and he was supposed to buy loo roll or something, but he'd always come back with some fish or shellfish. And we've always had fresh vegetables from the garden. He is a massively keen gardener, so he grew all our tomatoes, artichokes, asparagus - whenever he wasn't working, he was in the garden. Tom Parker Bowles

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There's absolutely nothing anyone can say about my mother or myself or my step-father that we haven't heard before. You'd have to be a Dickens or a Nabakov to come up with something really offensive. Tom Parker Bowles

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London was a spice mecca. The first recipe for curry in English was actually published in 1747. Tom Parker Bowles

First Recipe Spice London Curry English Mecca Published Actually

The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet. Tom Parker Bowles

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Like the Devil, the Norway lobster is known by a variety of different names: cigala in Spain, langoustine in France, Dublin Bay Prawn in Ireland. And in Italy, as well as the U.K., scampi. Tom Parker Bowles

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I have stayed in lots of great hotels around the world, and the Plaza Athenee is definitely one of my favourites. Tom Parker Bowles

Great World Plaza Definitely Favourites Stayed Hotels Around Lots

There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too. Tony Parsons

I've been visiting Thailand for more than 20 years but didn't fall in love with it until I visited Phuket Town in Phuket. The northern part of Phuket is one of the most fascinating places I've ever been, and largely unspoilt and unknown. Tony Parsons

Love Fall Unknown Visited Visiting More Part Town Most Until Been Years Thailand Than Northern Places Fascinating Largely Ever

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy. Tony Parsons

Public Schools Schools Without Grammar Public

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out. Tony Parsons

You Ladder Way Kids Out Give Families Ordinary Them Show

I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me. Tony Parsons

Me Having Well North Worked Dad Star Found

If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them. Tony Parsons

I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic. Tony Parsons

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I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30. Tony Parsons

Age Before Think Wrote Anything Much

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