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 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.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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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.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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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.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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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.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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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.
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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.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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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.
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People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
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I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.
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We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.
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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.
