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Howard Jacobson

British Novelist

Born: Aug 25, 1942

Every Me People Think Will You

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I like a singalong. And I'm a bit of a sentimentalist for the past myself. Howard Jacobson

Myself Past Bit Like

There's a lot to be said for misanthropy. Howard Jacobson

Said Lot

This is now the way our culture prioritises. Look up 'Steppenwolf,' and you'll get the band before the novel. Look up Jesus Christ, and you'll get the musical. Look up Princess Link-a-din and you'll get LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network. Howard Jacobson

I once gave a character in a novel my inability to get past the same point in any work of philosophy: that moment when seeing is suddenly occluded and you know you can go no further. Howard Jacobson

Work Character You Past Gave Once Philosophy Further Seeing Point Know Go Get Same Any Inability Moment Novel Suddenly

Box-set culture inclines to the hyperbolic. Howard Jacobson

Culture

Love is a brainworm. Howard Jacobson

Love Love Is

I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occasionally, someone like Dickens or George Eliot comes along to prove the opposite. Howard Jacobson

Worth Say Someone Inverse Proportion Along Like Occasionally Prove Go Opposite George Sell Dickens Just Far Novels

The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own. Howard Jacobson

Own Our More Educated Contrary Less Views Tolerate Prepared

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it. Howard Jacobson

Learning Will Fall Out Shake Higher Institution Any Dozen

If the academic community gets its way, we will soon all be speaking with a single voice. Howard Jacobson

Will Single Community Way Voice Soon Academic Gets Speaking

Poets are not meant to be in competition. Howard Jacobson

Competition Poets Meant Meant To Be

Everything is susceptible to corruption of one sort or another - humanity is one big cheat - but it matters particularly with sport, which ceases to be itself the minute the outcome's rigged. Howard Jacobson

Corruption Humanity Big Matters Everything Outcome Minute Cheat Particularly Sport Sort Another Ceases Itself Susceptible Which Rigged

Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention. Howard Jacobson

Made Argument Monotonous Spirit Cultural Revolutions Intention Against Many Among

That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing. In most instances, it doesn't at all imply a continuing reverence. Howard Jacobson

Needs Will Nation Reflect Arguing Longer Attitudes Imply Most Reverence Continuing Current Congenial Beliefs Hardly

If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person carrying a well-thumbed copy of 'Middlemarch' in his back pocket? Howard Jacobson

Art Power Doubt Back Carrying Pocket No-One Come How Been His Person Literature Mugged Ever Copy

Whoever believes he knows why everything is as it is has hold of nothing. Howard Jacobson

Nothing Everything He Knows Hold Whoever Why Believes

I never believe any politician talking about popular culture. Howard Jacobson

Culture Politician Believe About Never Talking Any Popular Popular Culture

Do you want to be strangely various, or do you want to be purely yourself? Either way, revere no one. Howard Jacobson

You Yourself Way Purely Various No-One Revere Want Either Strangely

Failing to see the point is not a virtue. Howard Jacobson

Virtue See Point Failing

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