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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them.”
― Professor Henry Jones from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

“The problem is he thinks he and Eli could be good for each other. Really good. Under different circumstances. In a different life.
Or maybe, if he was just a little braver, in this one.”
― E.L. Massey, Like Real People Do

“Calculus is homophobic,” Eli mutters. “What?” Alex says. “How?” “I’m gay, and it inconveniences me.”
― E.L. Massey, Like Real People Do

“Do you think two exclamation marks are excessive?” he asks. “Oh, yeah,” Jeff says. “He’ll for sure know you’re in love with him now.”
― E.L. Massey, Like Real People Do

“he’s pretty sure he’s in love, and it’s terrible.”
― E.L. Massey, Like Real People Do

“Apparently, Alex doesn't know how to handle emotions, and he's a dumpster fire of a human being.”
― E.L. Massey, Like Real People Do

“I should be trying to change the way people think, not just blindly following the shitty system that exists.”
― E.L. Massey, Like Real People Do

“Because there’s definitely something there, he thinks. Something between them.”
― E.L. Massey, Like Real People Do

“You weren't wrong about me being a killer. But the only person I've ever tried to kill is myself.”
― Rey Terciero, Northranger: A Modern Graphic Novel Retelling of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey

“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“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?”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society

“When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think”
― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society: The Screenplay

“If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - Carpe - hear it? – Carpe, Carpe Diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“Carpe Diem,” Keating whispered loudly. “Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“Calling things by the wrong name adds to the affliction of the world.”
― Albert Camus

“Remember, an education is one thing no one can take away from you.”
― Johnnie Christmas, Swim Team

“How did you die?"
"We er....drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big bathtub.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief