"One of the quainter quirks of life is……" — Philip Larkin
"One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves."
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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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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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Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.
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More Dame Quotes
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I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.
— Tyra Banks
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My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child…
— Dave Brubeck
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There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're…
— Dan Devine
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A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long…
— Henri Nouwen
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I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
— Bette Davis
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I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame
— Ethel Merman
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I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,'…
— Barbara Stanwyck
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What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain?
— J-Ro
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Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college…
— Bear Bryant
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
— Dan Devine
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National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about.…
— Mae West
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