"The perfect bacon sandwich is on white bread, very soft and very thick. Sourdough with a good crust. The bacon is half way to being crispy - and there's lots of it - and enough brown sauce to trickle down your arm. You've not really enjoyed a bacon sandwich unless 10 minutes later you're still licking your wrists."

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Source : "Howard Jacobson: What I've Learned" by Ben Mitchell, www.esquire.com. August 10, 2014.

Howard Jacobson

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“For me, there's a bad year of getting started on something. You write bad stuff and it's awkward to throw it out, and you wait around to get some good ideas that maybe do come or don't come. Until eventually you get the voice and autonomy of the characters, the characters have personality, and they sort of pick up the weight and put it on their shoulders. That's when it becomes a little more fun.”
“Ignoring facts does not make them go away.”
“Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.”
“Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.”

Source : Forrest Carter (2001). “The Education of Little Tree”, p.101, UNM Press
“The language that reveals also obscures.”
“I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue.”
“We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation”
“You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.”

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