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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
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