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Living with Music
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In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.
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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
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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:
March 1, 1914
Died:
April 16, 1994
(aged 80)
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