Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

剧本创作进入你的血液,你无法阻止它。至少在制片人或公众告诉你之前不会。

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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

正如我们一直所了解的那样,无论好人还是坏人,都不会从恶棍的心里产生一种潜在的诚实,从诚实的人的内心深处产生一种野蛮的欲望——一种消灭的渴望,一种嗜血的欲望。

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

经济萧条不能通过立法行动或行政声明来治愈。经济创伤必须通过经济主体的细胞- -生产者和消费者本身- -的行动来愈合。

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

所有重要的事实都是私人的事实。当它们公诸于众时,就不再成为真理;它们成为事实,或者至多成为公众性格的一部分;或者最坏的情况是,流行语。

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

当生产者想知道公众想要什么时,他们把它画成曲线。当他们想告诉公众该买什么时,他们会用曲线来表示。

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

至少有一半的悬疑小说出版违反了这样的法律:一旦真相大白,解决之道似乎是不可避免的。

I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

我宁愿放弃一切,也不愿让白人的鲜血流到我的人民的手上。

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

只有当一个人有足够的精力和能力去实现他的想法时,它才会变得有价值。

If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.

如果一个人觉得他无法沟通,他至少可以闭嘴。

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

没有什么是不可能的,除非它变成过去式。

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

公众演讲吗?我在街上自言自语!