British - Novelist | August 25, 1942 -
Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no money. Where there is no money, there are no officials with fingers in the pot. The lesson to be learnt from this is simple. If we want honest sport, we have to stop watching it.
Howard Jacobson
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Poets are not meant to be in competition.
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I am in denial about sport. I refuse to accept that I watch it. I am not the kind of man who watches sport.
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I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.
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Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.
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Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving.
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A healthy culture doesn't memorialise only those it agrees with.
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That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing. In most instances, it doesn't at all imply a continuing reverence.
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There is much that makes one pause in 'If This is a Man', the record of Levi's 11-month incarceration in Auschwitz, much one cannot read without needing to lay aside the book and inhale the breath of common air.
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Things happen in 'If This is a Man' that are beyond ordinary daily experience, but it is still us to whom they are happening, and the understanding Levi seeks is no different in kind from that sought by Shakespeare in 'King Lear', or Conrad in 'The Heart of Darkness'.
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Show me a novel that's not comic, and I'll show you a novel that's not doing its job.
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To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'literary novelist'.
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