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An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
~ Iain Sinclair
Departure
Disturbing
Doubt
Involuntary
Journeys
Most
Point
Return
Without
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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
Ambition
Before
Being
Bin
Certain
Down
Dump
Given
Graces
Itself
More
Once
Once More
Slapped
Suburban
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I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
~ Iain Sinclair
Am
Crumbling
I Am
Old
Sync
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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.
~ Iain Sinclair
Always
Central
Central Government
Difficult
Feel
Government
Human
Identity
Peculiar
Proprietary
Quite
Stood
Up
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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
About
Gradually
Know
Local
Map
Own
People
Story
Telling
Territories
Them
Themselves
You
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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
Am
Autobiography
Changes
Disappears
Either
I Am
Know
Landscape
Lose
Self
Sense
Then
Who
You
Your
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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.
~ Iain Sinclair
About
Celebrating
Doomed
Endlessly
Going
I Think
Kind
Nevertheless
Pretty
Think
Well
World
Worth
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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
Been
City
Difficult
Dig
Economic
Else
Future
Generate
Get
Goes
Has-Been
Idea
Immediately
Improvement
Like
Made
More
Negotiation
Never
Next
Once
Project
Reasons
Some
Something
Something Else
Space
Starting
Up
Vague
You
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
~ Iain Sinclair
Go
Got
Only
Project
Relaxed
Times
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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.
~ Iain Sinclair
Before
Change
Changes
Everything
Everything Changes
Happened
Necessary
Quite
Respectful
Right
Want
World
World Changes
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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
Able
Between
Bread
Connection
Declining
Empire
Enthusiasm
Least
Model
Obvious
Pay
Periods
Political
Public
Roman
Spectacles
Them
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
~ Iain Sinclair
Absurdity
Fix
Future
Manifest
Try
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
~ Iain Sinclair
Always
Form
I Write
Some
Write
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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
About
Dysfunctional
Expanding
Family
House
Imagination
Itself
Migration
Neurosis
Now
Person
Perverse
Portfolio
Presents
Property
Same
Something
Stays
Syndrome
Who
World
Years
You
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You can't impose a legacy.
~ Iain Sinclair
Impose
Legacy
You
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
~ Iain Sinclair
Become
Biography
House
Leave
Thing
You
Your
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