British - Novelist | August 25, 1942 -
Do you want to be strangely various, or do you want to be purely yourself? Either way, revere no one.
Howard Jacobson
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Don't imagine that a word you say is going to make a blind bit of difference.
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Failing to see the point is not a virtue.
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It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going to the bad. Well, yes, it has, and it is an author's job to point it out.
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'J' is a novel. A story about what it is like for people after a terrible event. And it is a love story, because I feel a novel is inevitably a love story.
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Ideally, I would like everyone in the world to read and love my novels. In fact, I can't believe that everyone in the world doesn't love them. What is there not to love?
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Sometimes I felt like my columns were like little novels in themselves. But I wasn't writing what I believed. I'm not interested in what I believe.
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Every time I criticize the anti-Zionists, they say, 'You are trying to silence us.' I don't deny there are some people who are critical of Israel who are not anti-Semitic. But to criticize Israel, and then criticize Zionism, is not quite the same thing.
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'Legality' is a mad phrase to use when it comes to the founding of nations. Australia was founded on illegality. For the Americans to go in and dispossess the American Indians was illegal.
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People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.
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When I was teaching at Cambridge, I sold handbags on the market.
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One of the great things about us Jews is that we tell the best jokes. Part of the reason is we tell jokes against ourselves - before anyone else gets to do it.
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