Philip Larkin Quotes

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Philip Larkin

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• When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.

  

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• I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

  

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• The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

  

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• Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

  

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• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

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• My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.

  

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• I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.

  

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• Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

  

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• I see ghosts.

  

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• I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.

  

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• We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

  

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• My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

  

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• I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.

  

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• What you want if you're asking that question is a specific time in your life to come back to you, and that will never happen. You will never be 15 years old again. I could write, verbatim, another Take This To Your Grave, and you won't feel the same way. It's not going to mean anything to you because it wouldn't mean anything to me.

  

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• You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

  

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• Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.

  

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• She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty,Grows cold even in the summer of her age.

  

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• We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.

  

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• I wanted to cry, loud and wet with the pain of love.

  

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• Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

  

  Philip Larkin