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Philip Larkin  Quotes
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

—Philip Larkin

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FamilyLetters-To-MonicaPhilip-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?

—Philip Larkin

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PopularitySourceUnhappy
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When getting my nose in a bookCured most things short of school,It was worth ruining my eyesTo know I could still keep cool,And deal out the old right hookTo dirty dogs twice my size.Later, with...

—Philip Larkin

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Reading
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MCMXIVThose long uneven linesStanding as patientlyAs if they were stretched outsideThe Oval or Villa Park,The crowns of hats, the sunOn moustached archaic facesGrinning as if it were allAn August Bank Holiday lark;And the shut shops,...

—Philip Larkin

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InnocenceWwi
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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.

—Philip Larkin

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LettersLetters-To-MonicaPoet
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Most things may never happen: this one will.

—Philip Larkin

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AubadeDeathPoem
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Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles’ first LP.

—Philip Larkin

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PoetrySex
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You can’t put off being young until you retire.

—Philip Larkin

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RetireUntil
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SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.

—Philip Larkin

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ObstaclesPeopleSex
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Uncontradicting solitudeSupports me on its giant palm;And like a sea-anemoneOr simple snail, there cautiouslyUnfolds, emerges, what I am.

—Philip Larkin

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PoetrySolitude
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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.

—Philip Larkin

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DeathLifePoetry
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I am always trying to ‘preserve’ things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

—Philip Larkin

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FeelingPoetry
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Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

—Philip Larkin

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AnywhereHappens
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