Quotes by Iain Sinclair - Page 1

You can't impose a legacy.
Iain Sinclair / Writer
Legacy
Impose
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I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
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Crumbling
Sync
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
Iain Sinclair / Writer
Future
Absurdity
Manifest
Try
Fix
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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Relaxed
Project
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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Biography
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An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
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Journey
Travel
Departure
Disturbing
Doubt
Involuntary
Return
Journeys
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You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.
Iain Sinclair / Writer
Business
Games
Play
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It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.
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Book
Fate
Writing
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
Iain Sinclair / Writer
People Know Story
Gradually
Local
Map
Telling
Territories
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People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this.
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Moving
People
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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
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Doomed
Nevertheless
Celebrating
Endlessly
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The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
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Respectful
Quite
Before
Changes
Everything Changes
Necessary
World Changes
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If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.
Iain Sinclair / Writer
Autobiography
Landscape
Disappears
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Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
Iain Sinclair / Writer
Ambition
Dump
Bin
Graces
Once More
Slapped
Suburban
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Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.
Iain Sinclair / Writer
Careers
Discovery
Plot
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There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.
Iain Sinclair / Writer
Bread
Enthusiasm
Obvious
Periods
Spectacles
Connection
Declining
Empire
Roman
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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Central Government
Identity
Peculiar
Central
Proprietary
Stood
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I got interested in the contradiction between people who are understanding the city by not moving a single inch, by remaining in the same place all the time, and people like me who are constantly roaming around.
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Moving
People
Understanding
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As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.
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Demand
Mean
Want
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The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses.
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Dark
Glasses
Reflection
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As you withdraw energy from the city, you are also giving energy back. People are noticing you. You're doing something, you're there, the species around you absorb your presence into it, and you become part of this animate entity called the city.
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Energy
Giving
People
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With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
Iain Sinclair / Writer
Expanding
Migration
Neurosis
Portfolio
Dysfunctional
Perverse
Presents
Stays
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Culture isn't all just about what can be tweaked and twitched in the simplest possible way. As people move around, they literally don't see what's around them, because they're wedded to earworms that are burrowing into their heads endlessly in a kind of negotiation with these tiny screens.
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Culture
Moving
People
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Walking around becomes actually difficult. But the walking process is the oldest natural form of movement. It puts you literally in touch with the earth and the weather around you and allows you to get into conversation with people as you move, which seldom happens in the other ways we move.
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Earth
Moving
People
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The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.
Iain Sinclair / Writer
Improvement
Negotiation
Dig
Project
Generate
Immediately
Something Else
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London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day. And such dreams, smouldering against the tidal spine of the river, telling and retelling the tales that must be told to manifest a city's bones. Whispering the night architecture back into stone.
Iain Sinclair / Writer
Dream
Night
Sleep
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For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned gunmen ready to blow your head off as you run for a train. When the city of distorting mirrors revealed itself, through its districts and discriminations, I discovered more about London's past as a reworking of my own submerged history.
Iain Sinclair / Writer
Opportunity
Running
Book
Eye
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