To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober. - Philip Larkin

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There are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in accordance with their moral impulses. In all three respects modern society frustrates most people most of the time.

Philip Larkin

To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.

Feds, Sober, Warm, Write, Writing

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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

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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.

Careers, Lies, Littles, Lying, Sad

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance

Begin, Emotion, Ends, Poem, Poet, Poetry

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Art, Artist, Children, Life, Life Is, Thing

Sexual intercourse began in 1963. . .
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
and the Beatles first LP

Bans, Beatles, Ends, Firsts, Intercourse, Sexual

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Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

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Jean Dujardin

OSS 117 and maybe Un Balcon Sur La Mer directed by Nicole Garcia. It's a typical French movie with typical French themes with French actors, a French director.

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E. F. Schumacher

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Dave Barry

At certain times each year, we journalists do almost nothing except apply for the Pulitzers and several dozen other major prizes. During these times you could walk right into most newsrooms and commit a multiple axe murder naked, and it wouldn't get reported in the paper because the reporters and editors would all be too busy filling out prize applications.

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Olaf Stapledon

Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!

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