A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him. - Philip Larkin - Quotesmemo.com

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How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded, "That's your worry.

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Philip Larkin

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

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