"Above all, though, children are linked to adults……" — Philip Larkin
"Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up."
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92 Quotes by Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin has 92 quotes on this site.
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I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the…
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because…
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The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more…
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One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as…
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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted
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Death is no different whined at than withstood.
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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
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