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The Columbia World of Quotations.  1996.
 
 
NUMBER:34060
QUOTATION:The mind, it’s said, is free:
But not your minds. They, rusted stiff, admit
Only what will accuse or horrify,
Like slot-machines only bent pennies fit.
ATTRIBUTION:Philip Larkin (1922–1986), British poet. “Neurotics.”
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
 
The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press.

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