102 Howard Jacobson Quotes for You to Enjoy

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Sometimes, a writer's life alone can tell a story. Howard Jacobson

Life Alone Sometimes Tell Writer Story

As a young man, I wooed, unsuccessfully, with Puccini. It's important to get your operas right. Howard Jacobson

Man Important Young Operas Get Young Man Your Right

There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the small shops, production offices and design studios close down, and hey presto, we have another fashionable London suburb indistinguishable from the rest. Howard Jacobson

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It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing grand orchestral music in a public place is exhilarating in a way that hearing popular music never can be, if only because, in a popular music age, a full orchestra is less familiar to our ears. Howard Jacobson

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It's a law of our natures, especially when the political fit is on us, to applaud where we already approve, and deride where we don't. Howard Jacobson

Law Political Our Approve Fit Where Us Natures Applaud

Alarm bells ring when a politician stands haughty upon his honour. Howard Jacobson

Politician Honour Ring Haughty His Stands Alarm Bells

Alone of prejudices, anti-Zionism is sacrosanct. How very dare we distinguish the motivation of one sort from another? Or question, in any instance, an anti-Zionist's good faith? In fact, what determines whether anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic is the nature of it. Howard Jacobson

The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it. Howard Jacobson

Thought Would Boredom Studied Environment Safe Die Which

Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with. Howard Jacobson

You Easy Make Get Sensitivity Necessarily

In anticipation of a meal - supposing we are with the ideal companion at the best table in the perfect restaurant - we might indeed postpone sadness. And maybe even halfway through, we will remain in tolerably high spirits, with dessert still to come. But as we near the end of eating, we begin to feel anticipatory twinges of anticlimax. Howard Jacobson

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I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manchester and parts of Bury. The satisfaction lasted for half an hour before I saw into the nothingness of things. Howard Jacobson

You cannot exercise and be amused about it. You cannot integrate the dying bug into your core workout and hold to the position that you are a spiritual being. In this way, the body and the mind are each other's opposite unto death, which is why you have to choose which of them you are going to follow. Howard Jacobson

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