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" 'Family Guy'. It's not only the funniest programme on television, it's the most wonderfully, indecorously literate. "
Howard Jacobson
Only
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Family
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" Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British. "
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" The queue and the fan are, of course, closely related in that fans will queue any length of time in any weather to see, touch, watch, hear, read, wear, or simply enjoy proximity to the object of their devotion. "
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" If something or someone is being banned, I want to be among the first to know about it. "
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Want
" Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and obscure quotes which the recipient cannot read, I will say only that I learnt my lesson when I had to shell out with my own money for a hardback I'd vandalised and now limit myself to 'Good wishes.' "
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Myself
Money
" Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last. "
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Us
Years
" A healthy culture doesn't memorialise only those it agrees with. "
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Healthy
Culture
" The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it. "
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Thought
Environment
" You don't have to believe the electorate secretly hankers for a dose of Marxist-Leninism to accept that there are deep levels of justified bitterness out there waiting to be tapped. "
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Bitterness
You
Waiting
" As a Jew, I believe that every argument has a counterargument. "
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Believe
Argument
Jew
" 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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Against
Many
Spirit
" There mustn't be a moment when we turn on the TV and think, 'There's Trump in the White House' - that must never feel normal. "
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House
" Not everyone is fortunate enough to earn their living playing. But what draws people to art and artists is a desire to enjoy the propinquity of play. For it is the very freedom of the imagination. And what else were we born to do, but imagine freely? "
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People
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" I was young; I was newly married. My Cambridge degree was still warm in my pocket - a roll of parchment guaranteeing me, I thought, a sort of free ambassadorial passage to any campus of my choosing, and I had chosen Sydney - the world was all before me. "
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Thought
Free
" A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession. "
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Never
Out
" If it's bathos you want - and I suspect we are all bathos junkies in the end - nothing gives it to you quite like watching sport. Unless it's playing sport. "
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Nothing
End
You
" Rejection is the one constant of human experience. "
Howard Jacobson
Constant
Rejection
Human
" Words do not necessarily make us moral. And there have been presidents before who have stumbled over syntax and looked foolish when the words they have been forced to speak have been their own. But Trump is uniquely stunted. A child listening to two of his speeches could reproduce a third without the use of a dictionary. "
Howard Jacobson
Listening
Child
Speak
" This is now the way our culture prioritises. Look up 'Steppenwolf,' and you'll get the band before the novel. Look up Jesus Christ, and you'll get the musical. Look up Princess Link-a-din and you'll get LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network. "
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Princess
You
Band
" We shouldn't be too hard on vanity. It can be a mark of respect for the world. "
Howard Jacobson
World
Vanity
Too
" I would rise, monk-like, at 6 A.M., speak to no one, make tea, and go immediately to my desk from which I didn't move until frills appeared around the edges of my eyes or I heard the sound of a wine bottle being uncorked. It would give the wrong impression to describe these as Writing Days. "
Howard Jacobson
Tea
Wine
Writing
" 'J' is a novel. A story about what it is like for people after a terrible event. And it is a love story, because I feel a novel is inevitably a love story. "
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Feel
Event
Like
" Failing to see the point is not a virtue. "
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Failing
Virtue
Point
" I find Australia compelling and vexatious at the best of times; I've never been able to get it out of my system since going there as a young lecturer, and yet however much I love revisiting it, I always feel I have to leave again. "
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Best
Australia
Find
" Love is a brainworm. "
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Love
Love Is
" Every time I criticize the anti-Zionists, they say, 'You are trying to silence us.' I don't deny there are some people who are critical of Israel who are not anti-Semitic. But to criticize Israel, and then criticize Zionism, is not quite the same thing. "
Howard Jacobson
Time
Silence
People
" Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it. "
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Will
Higher
Fall
" You fall in love differently when you are young and far from home in a seductive place. You fall in love with the very air you breathe, and the vivid colours and the unbearably sweet sensation of distance and unaccustomedness. "
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Place
Home
You
" Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose. "
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Want
Leaves
Return
" Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving. "
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Most
Been
Whom
" When I see ultra-Orthodox Jews stamping all over Jaffa, or when I see them deciding who is a Jew, I think: 'What's happened to the grand dream of Zionism?' I don't like to see ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel. What's wrong with Manchester? "
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