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Howard Jacobson Quotes: "A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else."

A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else.



Howard Jacobson Quotes: "I'm a Jewish Jane Austen."

I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.




Howard Jacobson Quotes: "The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select."

The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.



Howard Jacobson Quotes: "I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success."

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.




Howard Jacobson Quotes: "It's never over till it's over with a friend."

It's never over till it's over with a friend.



Howard Jacobson Quotes: "All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?"

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?



Howard Jacobson Quotes: "In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur."

In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.




Howard Jacobson Quotes: "What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions."

What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.



Howard Jacobson Quotes: "I have a son, but I've never had a daughter. I have a sister, and my sister had a fairly tempestuous relationship with my dad when she was young, and that was gripping and sometimes upsetting."

I have a son, but I've never had a daughter. I have a sister, and my sister had a fairly tempestuous relationship with my dad when she was young, and that was gripping and sometimes upsetting.



Howard Jacobson Quotes: "You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance."

You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.



Howard Jacobson Quotes: "The 'Reader's Digest' used to run a feature called 'It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.' The new wisdom - post-Trump and Brexit - is that it doesn't."

The 'Reader's Digest' used to run a feature called 'It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.' The new wisdom - post-Trump and Brexit - is that it doesn't.



Howard Jacobson Quotes: "Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party."

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.




Howard Jacobson Quotes: "Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it."

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.



Howard Jacobson Quotes: "I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway."

I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.



Howard Jacobson Quotes: "People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic."

People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.



Howard Jacobson Quotes: "So the mathematician and the artist are companioned in the same dark, and do obeisance to the same gods."

So the mathematician and the artist are companioned in the same dark, and do obeisance to the same gods.



Howard Jacobson Quotes: "A life was owned by the person who lived it, he believed. What happened didn't always happen because you wanted it to, but what you made of it was your responsibility."

A life was owned by the person who lived it, he believed. What happened didn't always happen because you wanted it to, but what you made of it was your responsibility.



Howard Jacobson Quotes: "But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?"

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?