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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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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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Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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