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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I really like to have a bit of direction, you know?

  

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• My first job in television was on 'My So-Called Life.'

  

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• I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

  

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• Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.

  

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• Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

  

  Philip Larkin