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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

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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Novelist
Poet
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
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Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.
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