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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
Librarian
Music Critic
Music Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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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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