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Quotes from Coming from Behind — Howard Jacobson

born 1942 England

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

Coming from Behind (1983)

He was as sentimental as Hitler about applause and crowds.

Coming from Behind (1983)

In the highly improbable event of his being asked to nominate the one most un-Jewish thing he could think of, Sefton Goldberg would have been hard pressed to decide between Nature – that's to say birds, trees, flowers, and country walks – and football – that's to say beer, bikies, mud, and physical pain.

Coming from Behind (1983)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Howard Jacobson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.