“Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;
Girls aren't like that.”

— Kingsley Amis

"A Bookshop Idyll"
Cf. Lord Byron, Don Juan, "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, / 'Tis woman's whole existence."
A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956 (1956)

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English novelist, poet, critic, teacher 1922–1995

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