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  • As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.

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  • 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.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
    Interviewed in The Guardian, August 31, 2002. [1]
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Barry Larkin I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Barry Larkin If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don't believe he belongs. I don't believe that there are any guys that did cheat, in that respect, that are in the Hall of Fame. So I think opening up the doors to guys that admittedly cheated or are proven that they did cheat, it kills the integrity of what the Hall of Fame stands for.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Lawrence Durrell It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Philip Larkin Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Philip Larkin 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.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Barry Larkin My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • P. Larkin Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.
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  • Philip Larkin Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Philip Larkin Sexual intercourse began in 1963 (which was rather late for me). Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Barry Larkin The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Barry Larkin What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Philip Larkin Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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