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" For my own poor part, I go to great lengths to keep my nostrils sightly. "
Howard Jacobson
Own
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Great
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" 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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" There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the small shops, production offices and design studios close down, and hey presto, we have another fashionable London suburb indistinguishable from the rest. "
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" Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised. "
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" Once in a while, we need the hard Left to pipe up. "
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" It's not only teenagers who think they look good in pre-holed jeans, and I doubt it's only the superannuated who are amused by Ant and Dec. "
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" A healthy culture doesn't memorialise only those it agrees with. "
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" Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no money. Where there is no money, there are no officials with fingers in the pot. The lesson to be learnt from this is simple. If we want honest sport, we have to stop watching it. "
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" I have made of Sydney, to which I sailed in 1965, a paradise beyond the powers of fancy. "
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" You cannot exercise and be amused about it. You cannot integrate the dying bug into your core workout and hold to the position that you are a spiritual being. In this way, the body and the mind are each other's opposite unto death, which is why you have to choose which of them you are going to follow. "
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Body
Mind
Spiritual
" Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentimentality. Bankers dream like other men, the only difference being that when their dreams turn to nightmares, we all lose sleep. There can be no trusting the muttering of any prelate when it comes to money. "
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Men
Sleep
Science
" I normally take a long time finding titles. I finish the book and go into sweats for months afterwards trying to think of them. "
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Think
Time
Trying
" Nobody who's thought about politics or democracy over the thousands of years that people have been thinking about democracy hasn't come up against the fact that the people will often be wrong. And what do you do when they are? You can't just say, 'Well, it's the will of the people.' "
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Politics
" When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote: once writing meant writing and not thinking about writing, I knew nothing of any torment. "
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People
Writing
Me
" I've been married three times. I married the girl next door when I was 22, and I wasn't a good husband, but I wasn't a good anything then. Nowadays, I'm much kinder. "
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Next
" Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving. "
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Most
Been
Whom
" Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal. "
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Being
More
Hands
" I wouldn't suppose for one moment that there's a single one of Trump's voters that would be anything but confirmed in their beliefs. "
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Beliefs
Single
Would
" The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own. "
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Prepared
Educated
More
" 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. "
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Tea
Wine
Writing
" Our connection to the great myths of our natures is murky. A mother might see the Medea in herself without imagining she will ever do away with her children. "
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Mother
Children
She
" 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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" Rejection is the one constant of human experience. "
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Rejection
Human
" You don't remember people you love by the wise things they say but the silly things they do. "
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" When I first went to Israel, I saw soldiers pushing Palestinians around and thought, 'I can't stand this'. Then I'd meet somebody in a bar saying what wonderful people the Palestinians are and what mamzers the Jews are, and I'd think, 'Hang on'. It should be hard to make up your mind on any serious subject. "
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Mind
Thought
Think
" How Donald Trump has come so far with so few words - how he even managed to keep up conversationally with all those beauty queens - is a question I don't expect ever to be solved. "
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Donald Trump
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Words
" Love is a brainworm. "
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Love
Love Is
" Alarm bells ring when a politician stands haughty upon his honour. "
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Ring
Bells
Alarm
" My mother's side taught me to be a little bit afraid of everything. For a long time, I was quiet and cautious. But shyness makes you notice other people's excruciations and feel for them. I think that made a writer of me. "
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" Nothing is definite, nothing is finished, nothing is determined. "
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Nothing
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