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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

Topics: Among Back Fences Like Lists Literary Open Other Pleased Range Secretly Seemed Young

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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.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Band Bob Check Club Cowboy Discovery Duty Festival Had His Hot Inspired Kinky Leader Music Out Owe Poetry Santa Saw Texas Thought Were Wills

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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

Topics: Bride Dog Embraces Feet Function Hands He Hired His Imagined Magic Manhood Night Once Only Performing Sabbath Saturday Saturday Night See Similar Stolen Swing Texas Turning Western Who I See

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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

Topics: Anywhere Car Card Carries City Could Drive Everyone Freeman He Him His Impunity Knows Made Mayor Now Only Park Which

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

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Carriage Football Go Horse Jews Like Me Together

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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.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Adam Eve Followed Genesis Hairy Idea Likewise Old Personality Smooth Split Start Then Twins Types War Were

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

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Between Communication Cord Cuts Emotions Feeling Gratification Instant Instant Gratification More Offering Subtle Word

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

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Absence Advertising Complete Cynicism Doubting Mansions Many May Room Wonder

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

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Bars Before Chocolate Could Hot Melted Sell Shelves Summer Them

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Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Ambassador Bodies Definition Foreign

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: February 19th, 1948

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