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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.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Bitter Black Dashed Desire Failed Hope Hopes Humour Irony Make Off Outgrow Place Plans See Show Show Off Still Work World

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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

Topics: Bed Best Girlfriend Go Great Great Man How How Much John John Wayne Love Man Met Much Next Once Thing Wayne Westerns Who I Love

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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.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Anniversary Bought Carriage Clock December Died Father Last Later Month Parents Silver Wedding Wound Years

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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.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Breakdown Cattle Cowboys Cure Had Healthy Immediately Imposed Like Named Nervous Nervous Breakdown Prescribed Pursuits Rules Smitten Something Spaces Them Wyoming

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

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Delivered Finally His John John Wayne Oscar Role Rooster Wayne

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

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Blazing Blood Book Mccarthy Prose Revelation

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

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Annie Arizona Jane Wyoming

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

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Being Hate Jewish Many Myself Now Reasons Tell Them You

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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

Topics: Afternoon Anger Bottle Certain Could East Even Friday Go Honey Jerusalem Life Much See Sell Want You

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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

Topics: Because Chooses Criticise Father He Israeli Jew Like Live Policies Prepared Self-Denial Someone State

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: February 19th, 1948

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