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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by childr...

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Philip LarkinPhilip Larkin: Letters to Monica

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

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

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

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Philip LarkinPhilip Larkin: Letters to Monica