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“Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.”
-- Cole Porter
#Writing #Anything Goes #Use
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“All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer.”
-- Cole Porter
#Inspiration #Phones #Phone Calls
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“I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.”
-- Cole Porter
#Summer #Travel #Paris
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“I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?”
-- Cole Porter
#Wine #Alcohol #Thrill
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“Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.”
-- Cole Porter
#I Love You #Falling In Love #Bird
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“Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .”
-- Cole Porter
#Play #Laughing #World
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“Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do”
-- Cole Porter
#Passion #Blue #Singing
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“You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite of philistine Defiance To do what all good scientists do. Experiment. Make it your motto day and night. Experiment. And it will lead you to the light.”
-- Cole Porter
#Teaching #Night #Light
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“Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.”
-- Cole Porter
#Done #Dinner #Host
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“It was great fun, But it was just one of those things.”
-- Cole Porter
#Fun #Justice
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“Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.”
-- Cole Porter
#Gentleman #Kicks
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“Now: heaven knows, anything goes.”
-- Cole Porter
#Freedom #Heaven #Anything Goes
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“I ask the Lord in Heaven above / What is this thing called Love?”
-- Cole Porter
#Heaven #Lord
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“What moments divine , what rapture serene.”
-- Cole Porter
#Serenity #Moments #Divine
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“I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.”
-- Cole Porter
#Baby #Wrecks #Checks
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“He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.”
-- Cole Porter
#Sister #Hair #May
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“If you want to buy my wares Follow me and climb the stairs... Love for sale.”
-- Cole Porter
#Want #Follow Me #Stairs
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“In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today....”
-- Cole Porter
#Night #White #Mad
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“My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.”
-- Cole Porter
#Inspiration #Directors #Telephones
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“Every time I look down on this timeless town Whether blue or gray be her skies. Whether loud be her cheers or soft be her tears, More and more do I realize: I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall. I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles. I love Paris every moment, Every moment of the year. I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris? Because my love is near.”
-- Cole Porter
#Summer #Cheer #Fall
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“Night and day you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.”
-- Cole Porter
#Wedding #Moon #Night
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“Night and day, you are the one.”
-- Cole Porter
#Love #Crush #Night
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“If you ever feel so happy you land in jail, I'm your bail.”
-- Cole Porter
#Cute #Land #Jail
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“All the world loves a clown.”
-- Cole Porter
#World #Clown
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“Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'”
-- Cole Porter
#Liberty #Lines #Remember
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“I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.”
-- Cole Porter
#Song #Writing #Berlin
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“Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control...”
-- Cole Porter
#Self #Track #Add
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“The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.”
-- Cole Porter
#Falling In Love #Pits #Pekingese
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“Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?”
-- Cole Porter
#Want #Affair #Millionaire
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“a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes”
-- Cole Porter
#College #Clothes #Degrees
