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Philip Larkin Quotes

Philip Larkin quotes about people

English Poet August 9, 1922 – December 2, 1985

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Philip Larkin quote: "SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles."
SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles. Philip Larkin
Work is a kind of vacuum, an emptiness, where I just switch off everything except the scant intelligence necessary to keep me going. God, the people are awful - great carved monstrosities from the sponge-stone of secondratedness. Hideous. Philip Larkin
Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connollies) imagine anything that can be though can be expressed. Well, I don't know. I can't do it. It's this sort of thing that makes me belittle the whole business: what's the good of a 'talent' if you can't do it when you want to? What should we think of a woodcarver who couldn't woodcarver? or a pianist who couldn't play the piano? Bah, likewise grrr. Philip Larkin
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think? Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin quote: "I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems"
I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems Philip Larkin

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