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Larkin Quotes by Robert Morgan
- The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
- Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
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- I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like… — Zadie Smith
- It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. — Lawrence Durrell
- Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman… — Leon Uris
- There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt… — Leon Uris
- Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant… — Alan Bennett
- Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de… — Alan Bennett
- I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I… — Damien Hirst
- The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and… — Robert Morgan