| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 33898 |
| QUOTATION: | What can be said, Except that suffering is exact, but where Desire takes charge, readings will grow erratic? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Philip Larkin (19221985), British poet. Deceptions (l. 1113). . .
Collected Poems of Philip Larkin. Anthony Thwaite, ed. (1988) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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