The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

  • -- Francois Marie Arouet 阿鲁埃

一天有一百次作恶的机会,一年有一次行善的机会。

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

即使在文学和艺术领域,也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反,如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次),十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

对我来说,戏剧是一种写作形式,只有由演员来诠释才能完成。但它仍然是一种写作形式。所以我的大部分时间都花在思考如何写一个句子上。

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

有一次,我遗漏了当时我认为最好的一行,因为屋里有一只可疑的专栏老鼠。

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'

我曾经有一位糟糕透顶的经理,他形容我的职业生涯“每况愈下”。

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

好牧人的职责是剪羊毛,而不是剥皮。

It's a very good historical book about history.

这是一本关于历史的非常好的历史书。