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I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.
Howard Jacobson
In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.
Howard Jacobson
All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?
Howard Jacobson
In the highly improbable event of his being asked to nominate the one most un-Jewish thing he could think of, Sefton Goldberg would have been hard pressed to decide between Nature – that's to say birds, trees, flowers, and country walks – and football – that's to say beer, bikies, mud, and physical pain.
Howard Jacobson
How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?
Howard Jacobson
He was as sentimental as Hitler about applause and crowds.
Howard Jacobson