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Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

~Howard Jacobson

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If the academic community gets its way, we will soon all be speaking with a single voice.

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If you want a good life, don't succeed at anything too early or too well. And don't choose a profession that attracts money or attention. The minute people want to see you doing what you do, you're finished.

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Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no money. Where there is no money, there are no officials with fingers in the pot. The lesson to be learnt from this is simple. If we want honest sport, we have to stop watching it.

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Poets are not meant to be in competition.

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Everything is susceptible to corruption of one sort or another - humanity is one big cheat - but it matters particularly with sport, which ceases to be itself the minute the outcome's rigged.

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I am in denial about sport. I refuse to accept that I watch it. I am not the kind of man who watches sport.

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I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

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Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.

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A healthy culture doesn't memorialise only those it agrees with.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: August 25th, 1942

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