British - Novelist | August 25, 1942 -
The terrorist isn't a problem because he doesn't conform; he's a problem because he does. It's what he conforms to that makes him dangerous.
Howard Jacobson
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For my own poor part, I go to great lengths to keep my nostrils sightly.
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We shouldn't be too hard on vanity. It can be a mark of respect for the world.
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The day I don't attend to my nostrils is the day I will have forsworn that world and become a different person. Someone otherwise preoccupied. Someone who couldn't care less what anyone thinks of his appearance - someone for whom the material life has lost its appeal.
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Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens to hold one is hounded out of a job, and I will show you a university that isn't a university but an ideological prison camp and indoctrination centre.
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You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park to be sure none has perished since you counted last.
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Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.
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Politically it's easy to salve one's conscience, no matter that salving it rarely makes the problem go away. You join the Labour Party, write articles attacking the privileged, give the money you spend on opera tickets to homeless charities, and vow never to go to anything that can be considered elitist again.
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What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.
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Sometimes, a writer's life alone can tell a story.
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The Christian Armenian story was the Polish Jewish story. The efforts of the Armenians to stay alive in Musa Dagh chimed with those struggling to survive the ghetto.
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As a young man, I wooed, unsuccessfully, with Puccini. It's important to get your operas right.
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