for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that … - Paul Gauguin

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Paul Gauguin

for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough!

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