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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

by Dr. Seuss

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“I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: curiosity, knowledge, pleasure

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“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”
― Stanley Kubrick

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“Mozart is thinking of Chairman Mao”
― Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

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“I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.”
― David Foster Wallace

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