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Howard Jacobson Quotes

Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: August 25, 1942

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Great You Like Jews Harm Much

I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it.

Culture Think Lonely Environment Kid

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

Woman Dating Disappointment Guilt

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

Positive Good People Action Realize

Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers?

Stephen Colbert

Teenagers Who Wants Really

I built a huge profitable business with no debt.

Business Debt Profitable Built Huge

I just want to play until I think I don't feel good - and if I can still do it. If I can't do it, I don't think I'll keep going once I don't feel I'm playing the way I want to.

Good Keep Going Feel Good Think Feel

I read Tolkien when I was 11. I read 'The Hobbit' and the trilogy on a road trip with my family. I identified with the nonhumans in those books, and it never occurred to me why that was.

Family Me Road Why Never Trip

I don't feel that much fear.

I've had a carry permit for 30 years, and I would say off and on in different instances where I have, you know, felt it was appropriate, I would carry the weapon on myself.

Myself You Know Say Years Carry

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

Christian Marclay

Failure You Dice Just Do It Just

I was in 'Cliffhanger' years ago, so I'm a massive fan of the big event movies - the good ones - but there's a lot of crap that's made in between the good ones. It's just the superhuman films that I can't get my head around. I guess if you're a fan of them, then you love them.

Craig Fairbrass

Love Good You Movies Head Big

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

Anthony Burgess

Great Slang Creators

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