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Philip Larkin Quotes: No one can tear your thread out of himself. No one can tie you down or set you free.
         

No one can tear your thread out of himself. No one can tie you down or set you free.


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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.



I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.



How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.



I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action



I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.



As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.




Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP



Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.

Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.



Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.





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I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.

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We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.

We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.



The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

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I think that's all just a bit of luck that I've gotten to do such different stuff. I don't know if it's a good thing to not do something, just 'cause it's too similar to what you've done.

I think that's all just a bit of luck that I've gotten to do such different stuff. I don't know if it's a good thing to not do something, just 'cause it's too similar to what you've done.



Lucille Ball hates the color of her hair, too, and says 'I should wear a sign on my chest saying I hate it, but Technicolor demands it.'

Lucille Ball hates the color of her hair, too, and says 'I should wear a sign on my chest saying I hate it, but Technicolor demands it.'



I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.



Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China?

Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China?



The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.




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