“Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.”

— Philip Larkin, book The Whitsun Weddings

"A Study of Reading Habits" (20 August 1960)
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

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English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian 1922–1985

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