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Clearly money has something to do with life.
Philip Larkin
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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
Journalist
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Music Critic
Music Journalist
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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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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I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
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SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.
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Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
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To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.
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I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds.
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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.
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One of the sadder things, I think, Is how our birthdays slowly sink: Presents and parties disappear, The cards grow fewer year by year, Till, when one reaches sixty-five, How many care we're still alive?
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Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
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