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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You can’t leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography. Iain Sinclair Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys. Iain Sinclair Read Quote
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them. Iain Sinclair Read Quote
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 Read Quote
