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.
Dead Poets Society, 1989 (via raspberrymilk)
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The Rules of the Game (1939)
La règle du jeu (original title)”the awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.”
