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Howard Jacobson

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It is good for a person who has suffered from acute shyness, as I had, to find that he can cause as much upset as he suffered. Better to be a brute, I thought, than to be a wallflower.

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I have made of Sydney, to which I sailed in 1965, a paradise beyond the powers of fancy.

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I was a ‘reverence for life’ man – ‘see life steadily and see it whole’ – in my days as a lecturer in English lit. We are, I argued, if not exactly ‘saved’ by reading, at least partially ‘repaired’ by it: made the better morally and existentially.

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April 30, 2024

I was a ‘reverence for life’ man – ‘see life steadily and see it whole’ – in my days as a lecturer in English lit. We are, I argued, if not exactly ‘saved’ by reading, at least partially ‘repaired’ by it: made the better morally and existentially.

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April 30, 2024

I have made of Sydney, to which I sailed in 1965, a paradise beyond the powers of fancy.

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