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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religio...more

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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

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Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed paintin...more

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Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.