That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

  • -- Dennis Potter 丹尼斯·波特

这种共同文化的愿景现在只是一种遥远的渴望。

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

我认为,对我们国家和文明的未来来说,没有什么比充分认识艺术家的地位更重要的了。如果艺术要滋养我们文化的根基,社会必须让艺术家自由地追随他的愿景,无论它把他带到哪里。

If you do not breathe through writing; if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write; our culture has no use for it.

如果你不通过写作来呼吸;如果你不在写作中哭泣,或在写作中歌唱,那么就不要写作;我们的文化对此毫无用处。