Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

Sue Monk Kidd

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

Sojourner Truth

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

John Dewey

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Simone Weil

To love is to destroy. To be loved is to be the one destroyed.

Cassandra Clare

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water is indescribable in its evocations of innocence and delight.

M. F. K. Fisher

For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. But help me that God to write the passions of others; and while I write, keep me in my own right wits.

Longus

Life is too short to work so hard.

Vivien Leigh

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all...that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys that make it worth living and also worth giving...and that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.

Eve Curie Labouisse

Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.

Samuel Johnson

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

Ismail Merchant