Howard Jacobson quotes
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“How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource. Something you go to, for reference, as and when. But also something you simply look at, because it gives you succour, answers to some idea of who you are or, more to the point, who you would like to be, who you will be once you own every book you need to own.”
-- Howard JacobsonSource : Howard Jacobson (2011). “Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It”, p.101, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.”
-- Howard JacobsonSource : Howard Jacobson (1998). “No more mister nice guy”, Random House (UK)
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“Marriage is like a barbecue. When you light a barbecue, it's very exciting to see the flames. That's lovely, but you have to wait until the flames have died down. Everything that you want from a barbecue happens on the hot embers. You can't cook on those flames.”
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“In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.”
-- Howard JacobsonSource : "Coming from Behind". Book by Howard Jacobson, 1983.
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“I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.”
-- Howard JacobsonSource : Nextbook Interview, September 14, 2004.
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“All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?”
-- Howard JacobsonSource : Interview in the Daily Telegraph, April 2003.
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“Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.”
-- Howard JacobsonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.”
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“The perfect bacon sandwich is on white bread, very soft and very thick. Sourdough with a good crust. The bacon is half way to being crispy - and there's lots of it - and enough brown sauce to trickle down your arm. You've not really enjoyed a bacon sandwich unless 10 minutes later you're still licking your wrists.”
-- Howard JacobsonSource : "Howard Jacobson: What I've Learned" by Ben Mitchell, www.esquire.com. August 10, 2014.
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“How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?”
-- Howard JacobsonSource : Howard Jacobson (2010). “The Finkler Question”, p.16, A&C Black
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“I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.”
-- Howard JacobsonSource : "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure" by Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Anne Enright, Howard Jacobson, Will Self, Lionel Shriver, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.
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“I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.”
-- Howard JacobsonSource : Howard Jacobson (2010). “The Finkler Question”, p.38, A&C Black
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“It's never over till it's over with a friend.”
-- Howard JacobsonSource : Howard Jacobson (2010). “The Finkler Question”, p.46, A&C Black
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