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Howard Jacobson Quotes

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Great Art Reason Dictators Ban

I don't like to lay down on my food - it's not good for you. I like to take a walk, then meditate and read the Bible.

Good Food Walk Bible You Down

The thing that I always respected about Bruce Arians was, when he was at Pittsburgh, he let Ben Roethlisberger decide what he liked. I used to do that. You can put something in and force-feed it to a quarterback. But if he doesn't like it and have his heart in it, it's not going to be as good as when he really likes something.

Good Heart You Always Decide Going

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wish Literature You Mean Write Him

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Perspective People Picture Political

I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.

Writing Friends Done Hip-Hop Always

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.

Freedom Childhood People Clothes Run

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Good Heart Poetry Better Bad Quirky

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

Words Gentleman Ashamed Deeds Would

The government union bosses are the most powerful politicians in Springfield.

Government Powerful Politicians Union

The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.

Writing Game Process End Creating

I know, if I would have won 'X-Factor' and if I would have continued in that lane, I would have spiraled out of control. Performing on there was good, but it wasn't me. It was me compromising for the judges, just different people around.

Good People Me Control Know Judges

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

William Wordsworth

Nature World Late Too Much See Us

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