British - Novelist | August 25, 1942 -
The death of an Italian tailor might not be calamitous in Catania or Cagliari, but the loss to Soho is immeasurable. We don't have Italian tailors we can spare here.
Howard Jacobson
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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.
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Nostalgic myself, I am a sucker for other men's nostalgia.
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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.
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To any young person starting out on life and looking to make a quick fortune, I have this advice: forget banking, but go instead into security, scaffolding, or urban trench digging. Not in a hands-on way. I mean start a company.
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Certainly a curtain has never fallen too soon for me. Every play is too long, even the short ones. Every concert, every film, every television programme the same.
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Let's be honest with one another: almost everything is too long except life, and I know people who wouldn't even concur with that exception.
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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.
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It's not only teenagers who think they look good in pre-holed jeans, and I doubt it's only the superannuated who are amused by Ant and Dec.
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Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.
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Alarm bells ring when a politician stands haughty upon his honour.
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Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.
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