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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. "
Clive Sinclair
Quiet
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Master
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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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" You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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Smooth
" As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona. "
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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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Tell
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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
Clouds
" 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. "
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Attention
Famous
Her
" 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
" 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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Lived
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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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Growing
" Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print. "
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Out
Works
Print
" 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
" 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. "
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Year
Late
Patriotism
" For me, Jews and football go together like a horse and carriage. "
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Football
" 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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War
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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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Before
Hot
Sell
" One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar. "
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Finally
Delivered
Rooster
" 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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Parents
Father
Anniversary
" 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. "
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Someone
Kid
Born
" 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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Place
Black
Desire
" McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation. "
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Revelation
Prose
Book
" 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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" 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. "
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" I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious. "
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