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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

  • -- Sam Shepard 山姆·谢泼德

你不能以剧作家的身份谋生。你勉强过得去。

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The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

模仿的本能产生了演员;通过模仿获得快乐的欲望造就了剧作家;为了给这种乐趣提供足够的人物塑造和令人难忘的对话，产生了戏剧文学。

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For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

很长一段时间，我同时想到了两件事，一是我实际上是一个优秀的剧作家，二是下次我写剧本的时候，我就会被人认为是一个一无是处的人。

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If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

如果我在我的客厅里做一件作品，如果我练习它——我有磁带来证明这一点——它不会比在观众面前做同样的作品好。

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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

立即开始生活，把每一天都当作独立的生命来对待。

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