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Howard Jacobson Quotes

If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person carrying a well-thumbed copy of 'Middlemarch' in his back pocket?

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Power Art Literature Doubt Back How

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

John Maynard Keynes

Fair Years Pretend Little Must Gods

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

John Henry Patterson

Business Men Survive Serve Must

Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.

Matt Haig

Life World Survive Tools Meaning

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

Steve Buscemi

Matter Size Like Stuff Part

I personally like to shop in person so I can feel the product.

Simon Spurr

Feel I Can Person Product Like Shop

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

Tom Weston-Jones

Dark Want Way Sides Realistic

Here's my theory: If a person gets worldwide fame at a young age, they're emotionally frozen at that moment. For me, that's 15 to 18, so you find yourself in your mid-20s being a glorified 15-year-old. What could possibly go wrong?

Rob Lowe

Age Moment Yourself Me You Find

I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world.

Mikhail Gorbachev

World Think Goal Need Russia China

Music, to me, is something that connects to the soul.

Mohit Chauhan

Music Soul Me Something Connects

I'm busy, man, too busy. There's a lamentable absence of free time.

Juan Pablo Montoya

Time Man Free Busy Absence Too

I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.

Dee Rees

Poetry World Short Philosophy Get

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

Chris Hughes

I Am Person Who Immersed Then Am