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Philip Larkin Inspirational Quotes (74)

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Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
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Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The costly aversion of the eyes from death- Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.
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But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.
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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP
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What are days for? Days are where we live.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
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In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.
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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
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Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.
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SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
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One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.
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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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