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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. "

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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

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" One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar. "

" 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. "

" Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions. "

Clive Sinclair

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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. "

" I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious. "

Clive Sinclair

Religious

Any

" Santa Cruz is blessed not only with natural wonders, but also with gifted souls who can fashion nature's bounty into man-made treasures. "

" 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. "

" I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me. "

" 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

Lists

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For me, Jews and football go together like a horse and carriage. "

Clive Sinclair

Football

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns. "

" 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. "

" The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them. "

" As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona. "

" 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

" McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation. "

" Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print. "

Clive Sinclair

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Works

" I'll tell you now that I hate myself for many reasons, but being Jewish is not one of them. "

" 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. "

" Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end. "

" This was the wonder of advertising; the complete absence of cynicism. It may have many mansions, but it has no room for Doubting Thomases. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies. "

" 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. "