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Philip Larkin

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I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
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I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.
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Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.
I like spaghetti because you don’t have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it’s all the same.
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I like spaghetti because you don’t have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it’s all the same.
Clearly money has something to do with life...
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Clearly money has something to do with life...
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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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.
I listen to money singing, it’s like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad...
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I listen to money singing, it’s like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad...
Dear, I can’t write, it’s all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.
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Dear, I can’t write, it’s all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.
You can’t put off being young until you retire.
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You can’t put off being young until you retire.
I wouldn’t mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.
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I wouldn’t mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.
Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock...
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Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock...
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