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The glory of show business is that it gives the people what they want. The glory of art is that it gives us what we never knew we wanted.

Condensed milk.’ Paul went into a reverie. ‘I used to think, if I ever get rich, I’ll buy a tin of condensed milk and have it all the time.’

You will find that things that seem normal to you don’t seem normal to others, and might even be utterly reprehensible. Perhaps we are all evil. Or, perhaps none of us are.

WE LOVE KILLING. Which is great, because we need to kill to survive. Hungry? Kill something to eat. Sick? Kill the bacteria before they kill you. Threatened by something? Kill in self-defence. Not sure what it is? Kill it, just in case.

The candle left out on the windowsill had melted without ever having been lit; the wax collapsed pathetically under the sun’s fierce rays, its shape suggesting the peculiar
way love concludes.

Writing is a visual art

Most people imitate whatever everyone else is doing. They follow a script and re

recite lines we’ve heard hundreds of times, lines somebody else wrote.”

hey’re afraid that if they really express themselves, someone might not like them. And they’re incredibly scared of someone not liking them.” Dad would shake his head and say, “It’s ridiculous.”

Anthropologists and psychologists know that the weirdest thing you can imag