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- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell you now that I hate myself for many reasons, but being Jewish is not one of them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that there may well be a personal God out there - not a monotheistic God - that has got it in for me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.
- Dashed
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Chicken
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bounty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Santa Cruz is blessed not only with natural wonders, but also with gifted souls who can fashion nature's bounty into man-made treasures.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
This was the wonder of advertising; the complete absence of cynicism. It may have many mansions, but it has no room for Doubting Thomases.
- Chocolate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them.
- Definition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Granite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.
- Crown
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in 1948, a monomaniac called Korczak resolved to impose Crazy Horse's likeness upon a mountain. It took 50 years to complete the head, which measures 90ft from crown to chin. By comparison, the four presidents at Mt Rushmore seem modest.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word 'western' usually refers to movies, of course, but there is a literary tradition of the same name that pre-dates the moving picture and retains its vitality yet.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which the genre's leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the stories ain't; they appear more like fossils from a spent mine.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020