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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

  • -- Eli Stanley Jones 伊莱·斯坦利·琼斯

在普通的教堂里，它被体面所抑制，被一种想要表现得比我们实际更好的愿望所抑制。

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The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

城市的矛盾和脆弱驱使我去教堂。教会，反过来，包扎我的伤口，抚慰我痛苦的心，并把我送回城市。

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What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

戏剧比其他形式更早开始关注普通人的内部运作，有时使用神话模型来讲述故事。

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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

体面必须是一种比它的反面更令人筋疲力尽的状态来维持。那些成功的人似乎需要充足的睡眠。

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

如果你不愿意冒不寻常的风险，你将不得不安于平凡。

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It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.

反对哥白尼日心说的不仅仅是教会。

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Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

现在我已经六十多岁了，我开始追求体面了。

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