It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

把你的读者看成比他更傻的人是不安全的。

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To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

要能写剧本,一个人必须敏感、富于想象力、天真、易受骗、热情;他一定是个低能儿,诗人,说谎者,一个该死的傻瓜。

The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.

在费城,街道是安全的,只有人使它们不安全。

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

我不骗自己。我看不出自己在演莎士比亚。