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'If you stand still in a place, for long enough, it will show itself to you. It takes time, but you find the patterns, and once you find them you can start to feel at home,' he says.

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Ten things I'd say about London

1) People drop more things than you'd imagine.
2) It's better when the sun shines.
3) It's both bigger and smaller than you'd think.
4) There is kindness.
5) Get as close as you can to Battersea Power Station, and listen for the starlings in the old cranes by the waterfront.
6) There's a clock in a tree at the edge of London Fields.
7) There's a tank, painted black and white, on the corner of Mandela Road and Page's Walk.
8) There's a mural of a man reading a book by a broken tree, on the corner of Noel Street and Poland Street, not far from Oxford Circus.
9) Often the places that look the least inviting have the most to offer – there's a forest behind the tower blocks of the Heygate estate.
10) It's not a place you can ever really know.

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London, passengers would say, it's an amazing city: millions of people and yet you manage to bump into someone you know.

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Outside, it's bright, and I feel the same disorientation you get leaving the cinema in the middle of the day – a looping, confused moment when you step outside into cool, bright air, and see that the world has gone on, regardless.

'Sometimes I think of London being like a sea.'
You don't say anything. You are staring out over the city.
'Just that it's always changing,' I say. 'It has moods.'

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