"You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train."
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Letter to Monica Jones, 22 October 1967
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Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL (9 August 1922 ā 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and librarian.
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