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Howard Jacobson Quotes

The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Wit Right Humour Expect Simply

I think there are some people for whom words are like food.

Joe R. Lansdale

Food Words People Think Some People

If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.

Believe In Yourself Yourself People

I have to avoid sweet food because it's my weakness, and it's really hard. What you eat will definitely affect your skin, so I really try to stay away from sweets.

Food Sweet Weakness You Skin Try

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

Love Father Death Man Me Loved

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

Death I Am Me Know Dying Afraid

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Way Lovely Years Sixteen Those Then

In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.

Robert T. Bakker

Said Hot Dinosaurs Almost Were

In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation.

Jason Calacanis

Work Technology Vacation Week Would

I believe that everyone should participate in democracy and enjoy doing it.

Democracy Believe Doing Enjoy Should

There are different kinds of people in the world.

People World Kinds Different

Nobody wants the United States to default on its debt. Nobody. But, at some point in time, we've got to address the fiscal woes of this nation.

Chuck Fleischmann

Time Nobody Debt Nation Point Got

One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

Love Birthday Parents Kid Disneyland

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