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Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.

Alone of prejudices, anti-Zionism is sacrosanct. How very dare we distinguish the motivation of one sort from another? Or question, in any instance, an anti-Zionist's good faith? In fact, what determines whether anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic is the nature of it.

From Howard Jacobson

The Stop The War Coalition is a sort of home to Jew-haters because its hate music about Israel is so catchy.

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The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it.

From Howard Jacobson

I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university, so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to a colourful costermonger vocabulary, and tried passing myself off as a bit of spiv. But my contemporaries saw through me. At heart, they knew I was as bookish and oversensitive as they were.

From Howard Jacobson

Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.

From Howard Jacobson

Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.

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Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and obscure quotes which the recipient cannot read, I will say only that I learnt my lesson when I had to shell out with my own money for a hardback I'd vandalised and now limit myself to 'Good wishes.'

From Howard Jacobson

It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when people make witty allusions to it, I stare at them open-mouthed, not knowing what they're talking about.

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A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.

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