Iain Sinclair quotes

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys. (Iain Sinclair)
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. View quote
Iain Sinclair
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. View quote
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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? View quote
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You can't impose a legacy. View quote
Iain Sinclair
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. View quote
Iain Sinclair