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

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Am Any Belief Lacking Religious Religious Belief Sense Superstitious I Am

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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

Topics: Believe God Got May Me Out Personal Well I Believe I Believe That

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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

Topics: Had Hated Just Kid Latin Master Me Quiet Rational Reason School Very Whatsoever Who

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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

Topics: Back Bay Chicken City Cruz Farmer Mostly Retired Santa Then

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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.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Also Blessed Cruz Fashion Gifted Man-Made Natural Nature Only Santa Souls Treasures Who Wonders

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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.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Back Beautiful Beautiful Places Changed Clouds Cruz Decent Early Earth Eighties Feet Head Hills Led Life Me Most My Own Ocean Own Path Place Places Regularly Santa Since Through Zigzag

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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

Topics: Alienated English Felt Had History Hold Jewish Never Part Past Place Run Sadistic School

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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

Topics: Born Child Felt Grew History Kid Lone Montana Much Ranger Someone Up West Western Wyoming

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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

Topics: Around Enough Exploring Extrovert Gather Inner Inner Life Interested Interesting Jonathan Life Louis Manner Me Neither Public Realised Souls Sufficiently Tales Tall Writing

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

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Blind Blind Eye Eye Nearly Politics Turn Westerns You

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: February 19th, 1948

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