Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
Source: In The Harper Book of Quotations, by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1993.
-- Philip Larkin, (Aug 9 1922-1985), English poet, author, librarian; He gave expression to a clipped, antiromantic sensibility prevalent in English verse; wrote Jill, 1940 and High Windows, 1974.