Iain Sinclair Quotes

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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,…
• You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.
• 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…
• 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.…
• 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:…
• An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
• If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
• To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
• I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
• 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…
• 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…

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