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Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
Philip Larkin
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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
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Music Critic
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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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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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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