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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
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
All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one.
— Sarah Addison Allen
The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.
— Howard Jacobson
If the fat people just gave the skinny people more food, we could all just eat ... We could solve obesity and hunger at the same time.
— Ashton Kutcher
Whoever spoke of a wise lover? The wiser the lover, the longer ago he stopped loving.
— Howard Jacobson
There is no word for the sound a life makes.
— Howard Jacobson
Aren't all dreads half desires?
— 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
In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.
— 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
That was what was cruel about superficial change: it exposed what could never change.
— Howard Jacobson
But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?
— Howard Jacobson
History's lesson is that bullies ultimately defeat themselves.
— Howard Jacobson
All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?
— Howard Jacobson
I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.
— Howard Jacobson
But you don't always have to ask to know.
— 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
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
He would come to school balancing his night's dreams like an acrobat bearing a human pyramid on his shoulders.
— Howard Jacobson
It's never over till it's over with a friend.
— Howard Jacobson
You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.
— Howard Jacobson
And what's above all... above us... Who is God!?
- Who are the aliens... who are the people which ignore us!? — Deyth Banger
- Who are the aliens... who are the people which ignore us!? — Deyth Banger
I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.
— Howard Jacobson
Do not hope for too much. But do not settle for too little.
— Howard Jacobson
So many unhappy women out there. Such a sea of female misery.
— Howard Jacobson
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
I don't think there is a woman in her 40s who doesn't, kind of, examine herself in the mirror ...
— Sarah Silverman
It is the most horrific thought - my husband died among strangers.
— Joyce Carol Oates