#elf

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me. ↗

— Edward Bond

#going #i #i write #mad #make

In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you. ↗

— David Boreanaz

#comes #could #demon #destructive #find

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. ↗

— James Boswell

#companion #friend #himself #loves #man

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection. ↗

— Morgan Brittany

#people #performer #personal #put #reject

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. ↗

— Anne Bronte

#curls #finger #heart #his #into

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#departed #itself #life #living #shadow

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something. ↗

— Robert Browning

#fight #himself #man #something #within

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#fulfillment #into #must #pass #self-expression

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#make #myself #original #original idea #produce

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#alone #author #away #being #enough