When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the w…

Oliver Sacks
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach. ✨ Oliver Sacks (2011). Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, p.121, Pan Macmillan
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