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I Have Started To Say "a Quarter Of A Century" Or "thirty Years Back" About My Own Life.
-Philip Larkin
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I Have Started To Say "a Quarter
Philip Larkin
I Have Started To Say "a Quarter Of A Century" Or "thirty Years Back" About My Own Life.
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