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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.

Philip Larkin

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
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Music Critic
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Novelist
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Coventry
England
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Philip Arthur Larkin
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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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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Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.
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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
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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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This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
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One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
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Any memory for the most part depending on chance.
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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
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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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I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
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A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That's what I think I'd like . . . a version of pastoral.
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back
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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
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