Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys.
Make your lives extraordinary

Tom Schulman

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No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Tom Schulman

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Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Tom Schulman

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Only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

Tom Schulman

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We don't read and write poetry because it is 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 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. What will your verse be?

Tom Schulman

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I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Tom Schulman

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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.

Tom Schulman

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Believe it or not each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die

Tom Schulman

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Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and
necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Tom Schulman

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TODD: Well, listen, Neil. I-I appreciate this concern, but I-I'm not like you.All right? You, you, you say things and people listen. I'm, I'm not like that.
NEIL: Don't you think you could be?
TODD: No! I--I, I don't know, but that's not the point. The, the, the point is that there's nothing you can do about it, so you can just butt out. I can take care of myself just fine. All right?
NEIL: No.
TODD: What do you mean, "no"?
NEIL: No.

Tom Schulman

Tags: dead-poets-society-screenplay

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