Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't. (Peter Greenaway)

Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.

Peter Greenaway

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