Shylock Is My Name Quotes

“If that made him heavy company sometimes, so be it. Who decreed that life was to be one long rowdy masquerade (punctuated with those little pets of melancholy indulged by a crowd who made a religion of their feelings)?”
― Howard Jacobson, Shylock Is My Name

“That's how vilification works. The victim ingests the views of his tormentor. If that's how I look, that's what I must be.”
― Howard Jacobson, Shylock Is My Name