Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.

Philip Larkin

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Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.

Philip Larkin

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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Philip Larkin


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Much better stay in company!
To love you must have someone else,
Giving requires a legatee,
Good neighbours need whole parishfuls
Of folk to do it on - in short,
Our virtues are all social; if,
Deprived of solitude, you chafe,
It's clear you're not the virtuous sort.

Philip Larkin

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Living toys are something novel,
But it soon wears off somehow.

Philip Larkin

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I would not dare
Console you if I could. What can be said,
Except that suffering is exact, but where
Desire takes charge, readings will grow erratic?

Philip Larkin


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Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

Philip Larkin

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Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

Philip Larkin

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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

Philip Larkin

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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

Philip Larkin

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