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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.

Philip Larkin

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
Journalist
Librarian
Music Critic
Music Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
Unwanted
Incompetent
Start
Place
Feel
Feels
Always

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