Philip Larkin Quotes

But they were fucked up in their turn  By fools in old-style hats and coats,Who half the time were soppy-stern  And half at one another's throats.

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• I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
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• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
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• We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

  

  Caleb Cushing
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• So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.

  

  Warwick Davis
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• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  

  Larry Page
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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
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• Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
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• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

  Said Nursi
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• Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
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• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
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• We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.

  

  Warren Christopher
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• Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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• Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
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• But they were fucked up in their turn  By fools in old-style hats and coats,Who half the time were soppy-stern  And half at one another's throats.

  

  Philip Larkin
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