Philip Larkin Quotes
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I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
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I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
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Don't take yourself too seriously! You only live once!
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.
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Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
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I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes.
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Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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When you love competition, you don't want the market to consolidate.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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The true poem rests between the words.
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It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.
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L'histoire est un roman dont le peuple est l'auteur.
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'I am the King.' Ah, but which king? The monarch who had stood on these granite flagstones - scarcely worn then, eighteen hundred years ago - was probably an able and intelligent man; but he failed to conceive that the time could ever come when he would fade into an anonymity as deep as that of his humblest subjects.
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Man was engaged in a mad scramble for power and knowledge, but nowhere is there any hint of what he meant to do with it once he had attained it.
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The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
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Words, once my stock, are wanting to commendSo great a poet and so good a friend.
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Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
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The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.
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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
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- to start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
