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Clive Sinclair
Clive Sinclair
British Author
Born: Feb 19, 1948
Born Father Life Me Work You
Related authors: Dorothy L. Sayers George Eliot George Orwell Ian Fleming James Allen Marcus Buckingham Neil Gaiman Virginia Woolf
You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns. Clive Sinclair
Politics You Eye Blind Blind Eye Westerns Turn Nearly
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
Work Hope World Black Show Off Humour Bitter Hopes See Outgrow Dashed Failed Make Still Off Irony Place Plans Show Desire
Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions. Clive Sinclair
Communication Emotions Word Feeling More Instant Instant Gratification Between Offering Subtle Cuts Gratification Cord
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
Father Parents Later Month Carriage Wound Silver Wedding Bought Anniversary Years Clock Died December Last
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
Life You Anger Honey East See Could Bottle Go Friday Sell Want Afternoon Much Certain Even Jerusalem Buzzing
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
Father Live State Criticise Someone He Self-Denial Like Policies Because Israeli Chooses Prepared Jew
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
History School Past Alienated Run Never Had Part Sadistic Felt Hold Place English Jewish
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
Young Other Back Pleased Secretly Range Seemed Open Like Fences Lists Literary Among
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
Music Thought Leader Band Duty Club Saw Out Wills Kinky Poetry Inspired Had Hot Check Were His Discovery Texas Cowboy Festival Owe Bob Santa
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
Car Made Drive Everyone Carries City Only Park Could He Freeman Him Knows His Impunity Mayor Which Anywhere Now Card
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
War Personality Old Types Followed Split Divisible Idea Genesis Hairy Likewise Smooth Were Jacob Then Eve Twins Start Adam
The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them. Clive Sinclair
Before Summer Melted Could Hot Shelves Sell Them Chocolate Bars
Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies. Clive Sinclair
Definition Foreign Ambassador 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. Clive Sinclair
Patriotism Year Every Late Montana Out High Witnessed Audience Cavalry Led June Stood Plains Stand Last
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. Clive Sinclair
Women Father Husband Daughter Born Both Poland Singer Intellectual March Her
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
Age Babies France Slim Purchase Guns Born Pretty Only Both Area Take Driving Since Geographical Test Accommodate South South Dakota Germany Hitting Anything Fortunately Population Dakota Chances
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. Clive Sinclair
Church Farm Our Cart London Horse Cattle Still Up Meadows Growing Growing Up Near Pulled
I do not mean for one second to suggest that 'White Doves at Morning' was written with a movie deal in mind. Certainly not. Clive Sinclair
Morning Mind White Written Deal Movie Mean Certainly Doves Second Suggest
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. Clive Sinclair
Work Mistake Natural Big Style Think Would Would-Be He Chekhov His Singular Effects Big Mistake Did

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