"In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur."

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Source : "Coming from Behind". Book by Howard Jacobson, 1983.

Howard Jacobson

“When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.”
“I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.”
“I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.”
“The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war”
“I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.”
“Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.”

Source : Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.618, Allison & Busby Ltd
“[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.”
“Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.”

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