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Clearly money has something to do with life.

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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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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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What are days for? Days are where we live.
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The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.
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I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.
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The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.
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The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
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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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Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity.
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In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.
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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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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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