Famous Quotes | Another evening wasted! I...

Another evening wasted! I begin
Writing the envelope, and a bitter smoke
Of self-contempt, of boredom too, ascends.
What use is an endearment and a joke?
- Philip Larkin
Attribution: Philip Larkin (1922–1986), British poet. “At thirty-one, when some are rich.”

Categories: Self-hatred, Writers And Writing

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