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T. S. Eliot told Auden tht the reason he played patience night after night was that it was the nearest thing to being dead. — Howard Jacobson

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

But what is the imagination for if not tto grasp how the world feels to those who don't think what you think? — Howard Jacobson

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

Two weeks of false starts, of too much cloud cover, of strong wind, of last minute mechanical doubts. — Exurb1a

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. — Stewart O'Nan

I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it. — Howard Jacobson

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

That was what living a serious life meant, wasn't it, honoring the gravity of things by not pretending they were light? — Howard Jacobson

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

Don't I look after you when you're ill?' 'You do. You're marvellous to me when I'm ill. It's when I'm well that you're no use. — Howard Jacobson

Aren't all dreads half desires? — Howard Jacobson

There is no word for the sound a life makes. — Howard Jacobson

Men are fantastic - as a concept. — Jo Brand

I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever. — William Petersen

Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five. — Paul Harvey

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Whoever spoke of a wise lover? The wiser the lover, the longer ago he stopped loving. — Howard Jacobson

Let Stone be your God and you will find God in the Stone. — Peter Ackroyd

That was what was cruel about superficial change: it exposed what could never change. — Howard Jacobson

It's never over till it's over with a friend. — Howard Jacobson

I've had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother's had just the opposite. — Bill Paxton

And thinking of her waiting to be found, while he was waiting to find, gave a beautiful symmetry to the love he felt for her. — Howard Jacobson

So many unhappy women out there. Such a sea of female misery. — Howard Jacobson

Do not hope for too much. But do not settle for too little. — Howard Jacobson

I'm a Jewish Jane Austen. — Howard Jacobson

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Moods are adjectives of the grammar of life. — Raheel Farooq

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

There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good. — J.I. Packer

He would come to school balancing his night's dreams like an acrobat bearing a human pyramid on his shoulders. — Howard Jacobson

That's how vilification works. The victim ingests the views of his tormentor. If that's how I look, that's what I must be. — Howard Jacobson

At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them. — Howard Jacobson

I am a huge hockey fan. — Serinda Swan

But you don't always have to ask to know. — Howard Jacobson

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

History's lesson is that bullies ultimately defeat themselves. — Howard Jacobson