“Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.”
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“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.”
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
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