So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting … - Shaun Tan

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The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.

Shaun Tan

So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing.

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You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

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As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that's good because it's opening a discussion. Always in the back of my mind is this thought that the world has to be a better place with you in it.

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Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.

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The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.

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There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia, which is really remote.

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