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You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.
Philip Larkin
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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
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Coventry
England
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Philip Arthur Larkin
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It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
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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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One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.
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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.
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In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
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