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Howard Jacobson


Prize-winning British comic novelist, non-fiction writer and former academic.
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Howard Jacobson
Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.
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In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.
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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.




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He was as sentimental as Hitler about applause and crowds.
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All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out ?17 for economical?
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