"The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select."

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Source : Howard Jacobson (1998). “No more mister nice guy”, Random House (UK)

Howard Jacobson

#Girl Quotes #Smoking Quotes #Chocolate Quotes

“Sudden death and bloodshed appealed to me.”
“It's [â€œInto Thin Airâ€] there in print forever.Â It's part of history.Â Â People should be above taking someone else down.Â Â And for what?Â Â For money and egos people are willing to destroy other people to further their careers.”
“I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in.”
“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction”
“My favorite book is my next one. Iâ€™m always hoping to make my next book my best one.”
“A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.”
“I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.”
“Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.”

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