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Jane Austen knows how to get a girl giggling and kicking her feet in the air…. she’s kinda out of pocket for using every word above 6 letters long in the dictionary though just to describe someone blushing like come on! Cute though and I’m so glad I ...more "
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― 1984
― 1984
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”
― Dead Poets Society
― Dead Poets Society
“No, I've been calm all my life! If I don't do something, it's gonna kill me!”
― Dead Poets Society
― Dead Poets Society
“You must strive to find your own voice, boys, and the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.”
― Dead Poets Society
― Dead Poets Society
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