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Alone of prejudices, anti-Zionism is sacrosanct. How very dare we distinguish the motivation of one sort from another? Or question, in any instance, an anti-Zionist's good faith? In fact, what determines whether anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic is the nature of it.Collection: Howard
The Stop The War Coalition is a sort of home to Jew-haters because its hate music about Israel is so catchy.Collection: Howard
I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university, so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to a colourful costermonger vocabulary, and tried passing myself off as a bit of spiv. But my contemporaries saw through me. At heart, they knew I was as bookish and oversensitive as they were.Collection: Howard
Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.Collection: Howard
Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.Collection: Howard
Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and obscure quotes which the recipient cannot read, I will say only that I learnt my lesson when I had to shell out with my own money for a hardback I'd vandalised and now limit myself to 'Good wishes.'Collection: Howard
It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when people make witty allusions to it, I stare at them open-mouthed, not knowing what they're talking about.Collection: Howard
A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.Collection: Howard
In anticipation of a meal - supposing we are with the ideal companion at the best table in the perfect restaurant - we might indeed postpone sadness. And maybe even halfway through, we will remain in tolerably high spirits, with dessert still to come. But as we near the end of eating, we begin to feel anticipatory twinges of anticlimax.Collection: Howard
I am enthralled until the last ball Djokovic hits, and the moment it is over and he is on his knees eating grass, I sink into my chair, cannot believe I have spent another fleeting fortnight of the few summers I have left caring about the outcome of contests I will have forgotten in the blink of an eye, and begin to question my sanity.Collection: Howard
If it's bathos you want - and I suspect we are all bathos junkies in the end - nothing gives it to you quite like watching sport. Unless it's playing sport.Collection: Howard
I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manchester and parts of Bury. The satisfaction lasted for half an hour before I saw into the nothingness of things.Collection: Howard
You don't have to be in pursuit of a body beautiful to wish yourself to be the flexuously willowy creature you once were or, failing that, just to be able to pick up something you have dropped.Collection: Howard
I once belonged to a health club, where it cost me £2,000 a year to amble on a treadmill for half an hour a week and sit and read Grazia in the cooling-off area.Collection: Howard
Looking back, I realise it wasn't only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn't knowledge I objected to but instruction. Why couldn't they just tell us what books to read and leave us to get on and read them?Collection: Howard
Once in a while, we need the hard Left to pipe up.Collection: Howard
You don't have to believe the electorate secretly hankers for a dose of Marxist-Leninism to accept that there are deep levels of justified bitterness out there waiting to be tapped.Collection: Howard
Maybe we'd forgotten what socialists are meant to look and sound like. Well, now we've been reminded. They're meant to look and sound like Jeremy Corbyn.Collection: Howard
I like a singalong. And I'm a bit of a sentimentalist for the past myself.Collection: Howard
Of the secular mysteries to which I wake with fresh and sometimes angry amazement every day, the queue is the second-most baffling. The first is the fan.Collection: Howard
There is a shop close to where I live, outside which, on certain nights of the month - I've no idea if the transit of the moon determines precisely when - fans of designer skateboards queue from early evening in order - well in order, I presume - to be among the first to jump on a skateboard when the shop opens in the morning.Collection: Howard
There's a lot to be said for misanthropy.Collection: Howard
Rejection is the one constant of human experience.Collection: Howard
This is now the way our culture prioritises. Look up 'Steppenwolf,' and you'll get the band before the novel. Look up Jesus Christ, and you'll get the musical. Look up Princess Link-a-din and you'll get LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network.Collection: Howard
Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.Collection: Howard
You won't get a rational assessment of a political party from a member, and you won't get a reasoned account of the joys of being 'linked' from somebody who's already 'in.'Collection: Howard
Even the wordiest of men know there's a time to button it.Collection: Howard
I once gave a character in a novel my inability to get past the same point in any work of philosophy: that moment when seeing is suddenly occluded and you know you can go no further.Collection: Howard
To be clear, I abhor the separation wall. It is an eyesore in itself and makes tangible the failed diplomacy and cruel short-sightedness that causes such misery in the region. No Palestinian can see that wall and not wonder if the Israelis mean it to stay there forever, a constant reminder of what they never intend to change.Collection: Howard
When emotion rules, every fool thinks that he is holy.Collection: Howard
Nothing is more interesting in a novel or a play than an affair.Collection: Howard
Box-set culture inclines to the hyperbolic.Collection: Howard
Love is a brainworm.Collection: Howard
It would be nice if we could all agree to this proposition: popularity is not the same as achievement.Collection: Howard
I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occasionally, someone like Dickens or George Eliot comes along to prove the opposite.Collection: Howard
If the great thing about the Internet is that it throws wide the doors of discussion to everyone, the bad thing about the Internet is that it throws wide the doors of discussion to everyone.Collection: Howard
Homesickness is universal. But Neapolitan homesickness goes back further than the accidents of domicile. It is nostalgia for love and loss themselves, a soul-sickness caused by the very idea of leaving.Collection: Howard
The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own.Collection: Howard
Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.Collection: Howard
If the academic community gets its way, we will soon all be speaking with a single voice.Collection: Howard
It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated - and I say itchy polemicist promoting thought, not itchy ideologue promoting violence - but because provocation is indispensable to the workings of a sound, creative culture.Collection: Howard
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.Collection: Howard
Poets are not meant to be in competition.Collection: Howard
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.Collection: Howard
I am in denial about sport. I refuse to accept that I watch it. I am not the kind of man who watches sport.Collection: Howard
I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.Collection: Howard
Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.Collection: Howard
Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving.Collection: Howard
A healthy culture doesn't memorialise only those it agrees with.Collection: Howard
That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing. In most instances, it doesn't at all imply a continuing reverence.Collection: Howard