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Howard Jacobson Quotes

British - Novelist | August 25, 1942 -

A book isn't noise to drown out other noise.

Howard Jacobson

Book Out Noise Drown Other

Nothing is more interesting in a novel or a play than an affair.

Howard Jacobson

Interesting Play Nothing More Affair

Box-set culture inclines to the hyperbolic.

Howard Jacobson

Love is a brainworm.

Howard Jacobson

I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occasionally, someone like Dickens or George Eliot comes along to prove the opposite.

Howard Jacobson

Someone Worth Go Say Prove Sell

It is no judgement of a thing outside yourself to say it makes you ill. The wise reader knows that every pronouncement is, to some degree, an act of self-exposure; the book you find too challenging might only show how ill-equipped you are to face its challenge.

Howard Jacobson

Challenge Yourself Wise Book Face

Homesickness is universal. But Neapolitan homesickness goes back further than the accidents of domicile. It is nostalgia for love and loss themselves, a soul-sickness caused by the very idea of leaving.

Howard Jacobson

Love Loss Back Nostalgia Leaving

The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own.

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More Educated Own Tolerate Prepared

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

Howard Jacobson

Learning Fall Will Out Dozen Higher

If the academic community gets its way, we will soon all be speaking with a single voice.

Howard Jacobson

Community Voice Will Way Single

It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated - and I say itchy polemicist promoting thought, not itchy ideologue promoting violence - but because provocation is indispensable to the workings of a sound, creative culture.

Howard Jacobson

Culture Creative Free Thought Name

If you want a good life, don't succeed at anything too early or too well. And don't choose a profession that attracts money or attention. The minute people want to see you doing what you do, you're finished.

Howard Jacobson

Life Good Money People Succeed You

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