Quotes by Clive Sinclair - Page 1

Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies.
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Ambassador
Bodies
Definition
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For me, Jews and football go together like a horse and carriage.
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Horse
Carriage
Jews
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You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.
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Blind
Eye
Blind Eye
Nearly
Westerns
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As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona.
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Annie
Arizona
Jane
Wyoming
Coleman
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I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious.
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Lacking
Religious Belief
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McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.
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Blazing
Prose
Mccarthy
Revelation
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One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.
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Wayne
Delivered
Finally
John
One-Eyed
Oscar
Rooster
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I'll tell you now that I hate myself for many reasons, but being Jewish is not one of them.
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Hate
Jewish
Reasons
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Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.
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Forgotten
Ignored
Print
Literary
Largely
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I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.
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Latin
Quiet
Rational
Master
Whatsoever
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I believe that there may well be a personal God out there - not a monotheistic God - that has got it in for me.
Clive Sinclair /
God Believe Me
Monotheistic
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The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them.
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Bars
Shelves
Melted
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Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.
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Ignorance
Irony
Dime
Remained
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I do not mean for one second to suggest that 'White Doves at Morning' was written with a movie deal in mind. Certainly not.
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Movie
Certainly
Deal
Doves
Second
Suggest
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It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style.
Clive Sinclair /
Big Mistake
Chekhov
Effects
Mistake
Singular
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Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.
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Communication
Gratification
Instant
Instant Gratification
Offering
Subtle
Cord
Cuts
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Santa Cruz is blessed not only with natural wonders, but also with gifted souls who can fashion nature's bounty into man-made treasures.
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Blessed
Bounty
Cruz
Gifted
Santa
Man-Made
Wonders
Souls
Treasures
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This was the wonder of advertising; the complete absence of cynicism. It may have many mansions, but it has no room for Doubting Thomases.
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Absence
Advertising
Cynicism
Mansions
Wonder
Complete
Doubting
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When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm.
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Cattle
Church
Horse
London
Meadows
Church Growing Up Up
Cart
Farm
Near
Pulled
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Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds.
Clive Sinclair /
Range
Literary
Fences
Pleased
Secretly
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At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.
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Sadistic
Jewish
Alienated
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I can't go to bed with John Wayne, so I do the next best thing: I go to bed with my girlfriend, who once met the great man. That's how much I love westerns.
Clive Sinclair /
Wayne
Love Best Great
Great Man
Westerns
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I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.
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Bitter
Humour
Irony
Plans
Work Hope World
Dashed
Failed
Hopes
Outgrow
Show Off
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My history was the Western. I grew up with the Lone Ranger, the Cisco Kid and Bonanza. I felt as much a child of the West as someone born in Montana or Wyoming.
Clive Sinclair /
Lone
Lone Ranger
Montana
Western
Wyoming
Ranger
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In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died.
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Anniversary
Wedding
Clock
December
Silver
Month
Bought
Carriage
Wound
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I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer.
Clive Sinclair /
Cruz
Overlooking
Retired
Santa
Bay
Chicken
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The word 'western' usually refers to movies, of course, but there is a literary tradition of the same name that pre-dates the moving picture and retains its vitality yet.
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Vitality
Western
Picture
Literary
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If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.
Clive Sinclair /
Criticise
Israeli
Prepared
Self-denial
Chooses
Policies
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Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman's novels, short stories and translations received far less attention than the work of her famous brothers, I. J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Clive Sinclair /
Isaac
Translations
Far Less
Received
Short Stories
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Everyone in Tel Aviv knows Yosl Bergner. In 2006, the mayor made him a Freeman of the City. Now he carries a card which allows him to park his car anywhere with impunity. If only he could drive.
Clive Sinclair /
Freeman
Impunity
Card
Carries
Mayor
Park
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Tel Aviv is buzzing with so much life, you could bottle it and sell it as honey, and even Jerusalem has a certain fizz. But if you want to see anger, go to Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem on a Friday afternoon.
Clive Sinclair /
Anger
Afternoon
Certain
East
Friday
Honey
Jerusalem
Bottle
Buzzing
Could
Sell
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Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.
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Ancient
Extremity
Granite
Hills
Rugged
Smooth
Southern
Bare
Forms
Deadwood
Northern
Tip
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Hinde Esther Singer was born in Poland on March 31, 1881, the daughter of Bathsheva and Pinchos Mendel Singer. Bathsheva was an intellectual, but both Bathsheva's father and her husband disapproved of erudite women.
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Daughter
Husband
March
Poland
Singer
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Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Custer led out the 7th Cavalry in 2003 - the year I witnessed it - the audience stood and cheered with turbo-charged patriotism.
Clive Sinclair /
Patriotism
Cavalry
June
Montana
Led
Plains
Stood
Witnessed
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The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam's rib. Then there's Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types.
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Adam
Genesis
Jacob
Twins
Divisible
Eve
Followed
Hairy
Likewise
Split
Types
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Back in 1948, a monomaniac called Korczak resolved to impose Crazy Horse's likeness upon a mountain. It took 50 years to complete the head, which measures 90ft from crown to chin. By comparison, the four presidents at Mt Rushmore seem modest.
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Comparison
Horse
Modest
Mountain
Chin
Complete
Crown
Impose
Likeness
Measures
Presidents
Resolved
Seem
Took
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As I was writing, I realised I wasn't sufficiently extrovert to gather enough interesting souls with tall tales around me. I was no Louis Theroux. But neither was I interested in exploring my inner life in public, in the manner of a Jonathan Raban.
Clive Sinclair /
Exploring
Inner Life
Realised
Tales
Life Enough Me
Louis
Extrovert
Gather
Inner
Jonathan
Manner
Neither
Souls
Sufficiently
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In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which the genre's leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the stories ain't; they appear more like fossils from a spent mine.
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Alas
Anthology
Entitled
Finest
Fossils
Genre
Western
Appear
Published
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Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family.
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Awakened
Curtains
East
Loaded
Years Ago
Observed
Runner
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My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisited regularly since. The place hasn't changed: head in the clouds, backside on the hills and feet in the ocean - one of the most decent and beautiful places on earth.
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Ocean
Beautiful Places
Clouds
Cruz
Decent
Hills
Santa
Backside
Eighties
Led
Regularly
Zigzag
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In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.
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Breakdown
Cattle
Nervous
Nervous Breakdown
Smitten
Taciturn
Wyoming
Named
Cowboys
Cure
Immediately
Imposed
Prescribed
Pursuits
Spaces
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I owe my discovery of the Hot Club of Cowtown to Kinky Friedman, leader of the Texas Jewboys. When I saw that Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were headlining the 2003 Santa Clarita Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, I thought it my duty to check out the band that had inspired the Texas Jewboys.
Clive Sinclair /
Cowboy
Discovery
Santa
Check
Festival
Owe
Wills
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Heinrich Heine once imagined the exiled Israelite as a dog who regains his stolen manhood only when he embraces the Sabbath bride. I see western swing performing a similar function in hardscrabble Texas, turning dirt-poor hired hands into Dapper Dans with magic feet at the Saturday night hoe-down.
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Function
Magic
Manhood
Performing
Sabbath
Saturday
Saturday Night
Stolen
Western
Bride
Turning
Embraces
Similar
Swing
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Babies are born bow-legged in South Dakota. By the age of 12, they can purchase guns. At 14, they can take their driving test. Fortunately, since the geographical area of South Dakota can accommodate both France and Germany, but has a population of only 750,000, the chances of hitting anything are pretty slim.
Clive Sinclair /
Accommodate
Dakota
Driving
Germany
Hitting
Population
Slim
South Dakota
Area
Babies
Chances
Guns
Fortunately
Geographical
Purchase
Test
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