"An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys."

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Source : Iain Sinclair (2004). “Downriver, or, The vessels of wrath: a narrative in twelve tales”, Penguin Books Ltd

Iain Sinclair

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“Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it.”

Source : "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.
“I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it.”

Source : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.
“Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasnâ€™t his secret to tell. In every other way, heâ€™d been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear.”
“The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.”
“In terms of economical aspects, reinforcing those national parks with sophisticated anti-poaching patrols - these poachers are beefed up like the army. In the case of Cameroon, that's a perfect example of the lack of finance. The government could not provide the national park with more guards. Therefore, they lost the majority of the elephant population. I don't want to see that anywhere else.”
“The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.”
“I don't prefer to fill my body with antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and growth hormones - my body is my temple, and I treat it as such.”
“I view the art scene as an industry which is slowly developing. These days, technology has mad the world smaller. Meaning that information is a website away.”

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