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Don’t read much now: the dude
Who lets the girl down before
The hero arrives, the chap
Who’s yellow and keeps the store,
Seem far too familiar. Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.
- Philip Larkin
Attribution: Philip Larkin (1922–1985), British poet. A Study of Reading Habits (l. 13–18). . . Collected Poems of Philip Larkin. Anthony Thwaite, ed. (1988) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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