Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

  • -- William Hazlitt 威廉·哈兹里特

讽刺作家通过恐惧而不是爱赢得别人的掌声。

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I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

我一直试图弄清楚听众和表演者是什么时候决定不允许在动作之间鼓掌的,但似乎没有人愿意承认他们是罪魁祸首。

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

讽刺作家被排斥而无法更好地了解他所被吸引的世界,但又被吸引而被迫关注他所排斥的世界。

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

我的父母、祖父母、阿姨和叔叔们都很有趣,我感觉到那种活力、那种表达方式、那种时机、那种讽刺。所有这些都渗透进了我的大脑。

There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

种田和写诗一样有尊严。