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Fifth is the race that I call my own and abhor. O to die, or be later born, or born before! This is the Race of Iron. Dark is their plight. Toil and sorrow by day are theirs, and by night the anguish of death; and the gods afflict them and
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“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
“Morning, noon & bloody night,
Seven sodding days a week,
I slave at filthy WORK, that might
Be done by any book-drunk freak.
This goes on until I kick the bucket.
FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT”
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
Seven sodding days a week,
I slave at filthy WORK, that might
Be done by any book-drunk freak.
This goes on until I kick the bucket.
FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT”
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“Originality is being different from oneself, not others.”
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is. It's terrible the way we scotch silence & solitude at every turn, quite suicidal. I can't see how to avoid it, without being very rich or very unpopular, & it does worry me, for time is slipping by , and nothing is done. It isn't as if anything was gained by this social frivolity, It isn't: it's just a waste.”
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
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