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.
Philip Larkin
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
Tamara Mellon