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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. "
Clive Sinclair
White
Deal
Mind
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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. "
Clive Sinclair
Never
Place
Run
" 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
Back
Chicken
City
" I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me. "
Clive Sinclair
Quiet
Reason
Master
" 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
Poetry
Music
Leader
" 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. "
Clive Sinclair
Mountain
Back
Crazy
" 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. "
Clive Sinclair
Start
War
Old
" 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
Like
Someone
Live
" 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. "
Clive Sinclair
Night
Saturday
Texas
" McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation. "
Clive Sinclair
Revelation
Prose
Book
" I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious. "
Clive Sinclair
Religious
Am
Any
" 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
Believe
Personal
Me
" 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
Everyone
Drive
Car
" 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. "
Clive Sinclair
Growing Up
Horse
Growing
" You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns. "
Clive Sinclair
Politics
Nearly
Eye
" 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. "
Clive Sinclair
Ocean
Beautiful
Clouds
" 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
Year
Late
Patriotism
" Santa Cruz is blessed not only with natural wonders, but also with gifted souls who can fashion nature's bounty into man-made treasures. "
Clive Sinclair
Only
Blessed
Fashion
" 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
Test
Born
Age
" Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end. "
Clive Sinclair
Dime
End
Ignorance
" As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona. "
Clive Sinclair
Annie
Arizona
Coleman
" 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. "
Clive Sinclair
Place
Black
Desire
" 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
Back
Like
Lists
" 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. "
Clive Sinclair
Rules
Nervous
Like
" 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. "
Clive Sinclair
Lived
Sound
Call
" The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them. "
Clive Sinclair
Before
Hot
Sell
" 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
Honey
You
Anger
" 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. "
Clive Sinclair
Parents
Father
Anniversary
" 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. "
Clive Sinclair
Like
More
Literature
" For me, Jews and football go together like a horse and carriage. "
Clive Sinclair
Me
Go
Football
" 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
Man
Great
Great Man