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Howard Jacobson

You cannot exercise and be amused about it. You cannot integrate the dying bug into your core workout and hold to the position that you are a spiritual being. In this way, the body and the mind are each other’s opposite unto death, which is why you have to choose which of them you are going to follow.

– Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson

Looking back, I realise it wasn’t only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn’t knowledge I objected to but instruction. Why couldn’t they just tell us what books to read and leave us to get on and read them?

– Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson

I once belonged to a health club, where it cost me Â£2,000 a year to amble on a treadmill for half an hour a week and sit and read Grazia in the cooling-off area.

– Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson

You don’t have to be in pursuit of a body beautiful to wish yourself to be the flexuously willowy creature you once were or, failing that, just to be able to pick up something you have dropped.

– Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson

If it’s bathos you want – and I suspect we are all bathos junkies in the end – nothing gives it to you quite like watching sport. Unless it’s playing sport.

– Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson

I am enthralled until the last ball Djokovic hits, and the moment it is over and he is on his knees eating grass, I sink into my chair, cannot believe I have spent another fleeting fortnight of the few summers I have left caring about the outcome of contests I will have forgotten in the blink of an eye, and begin to question my sanity.

– Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson

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

– Howard Jacobson

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.

– Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson

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.’

– Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson

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

– Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson

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

– Howard Jacobson

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.

– Howard Jacobson

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