British - Novelist | August 25, 1942 -
You cannot exercise and be amused about it. You cannot integrate the dying bug into your core workout and hold to the position that you are a spiritual being. In this way, the body and the mind are each other's opposite unto death, which is why you have to choose which of them you are going to follow.
Howard Jacobson
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You don't have to believe the electorate secretly hankers for a dose of Marxist-Leninism to accept that there are deep levels of justified bitterness out there waiting to be tapped.
WaitingBelieveDeepYouBitterness
Maybe we'd forgotten what socialists are meant to look and sound like. Well, now we've been reminded. They're meant to look and sound like Jeremy Corbyn.
LookNowSoundForgottenWellBeen
I like a singalong. And I'm a bit of a sentimentalist for the past myself.
MyselfPastLikeBit
The queue and the fan are, of course, closely related in that fans will queue any length of time in any weather to see, touch, watch, hear, read, wear, or simply enjoy proximity to the object of their devotion.
TimeWeatherEnjoyWillDevotion
There's a lot to be said for misanthropy.
SaidLot
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.
CultureYouLookPrincessNowWay
Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.
IgnoranceBestSpeakTreesYouWood
You won't get a rational assessment of a political party from a member, and you won't get a reasoned account of the joys of being 'linked' from somebody who's already 'in.'
PoliticalYouPartyAssessmentGet
Even the wordiest of men know there's a time to button it.
TimeMenKnowEvenButton
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.
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When emotion rules, every fool thinks that he is holy.
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