Iain Sinclair Quotes
As you withdraw energy from the city, you are also giving energy back. People are noticing you. You're doing something, you're there, the species around you absorb your presence into it, and you become part of this animate entity called the city.
Quotes to Explore
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.
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Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
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There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.
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He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a consolation; for God abounds with grace to all those who carry the cross with good will in order to please him.
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As you withdraw energy from the city, you are also giving energy back. People are noticing you. You're doing something, you're there, the species around you absorb your presence into it, and you become part of this animate entity called the city.
