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As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

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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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