Top 35 Iain Sinclair Quotes
#1. That made sense of gabby meetings: salient points isolated from the gush of acoustic froth. This paper belonged on a clipboard, not being defaced by dud literature.
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#2. 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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#4. Men of the cloth live in this monologue, it is their due: nobody talks back to a pulpit.
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#5. Why not add another yarn? That's all we are in the end, any of us, a couple of dozen unreliable stories.
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#6. 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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#8. Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else's expense, you can't beat it.
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#9. Mossy had trouble breathing. He was not convinced the rewards repaid the effort. He took breath in, but after that let it fend for itself.
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#10. You can be so much in a room that the world outside turns to water. You've got the heater blowing out burnt air, but you still don't get warm. Your ankles are singed, but your head's in a bucket of ice. Time drips like a stalactite. The water for the coffee boils away in a tree of steam.
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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. All kinds of weird stuff going down, whisperings in corners, significant matches struck and blown out. The whores, unoccupied, were drinking heavily. The police, occupied were drinking even more heavily. The grass in the corner wanted to drink most heavily, but lacked the poke.
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#15. I was gazing back in the direction of Wales, watching the Prudence clone, when I noticed a couple of drunks lurching in my direction. Night people who live in service stations. The insufficiently deceased.
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#16. What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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#17. The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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#18. 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.
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#20. 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.
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#21. You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.
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#22. ...drunk enough on earth's liquors to relish the prospect of the knife.
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#23. For a poet the world is always static in the sense that you're a mass observer and you can't afford to care whether people are busy or not. You're a witness.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#26. To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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#27. You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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#28. An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
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#29. 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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#30. 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?
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#31. If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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#32. 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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#33. One thing I had learnt, the last person you should ask for a solution is the author. If he knew where he was going, he'd stop dead in his tracks.
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#34. The suicide hour of cold coffee and alien voices on the radio.
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#35. Atkins knows two kinds of birds: seagulls and the ones that aren't seagulls.
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