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The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
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The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.
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Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
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New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
October 30, 1857
Died:
June 14, 1948
(aged 90)
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