Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

  • -- Truman Capote 杜鲁门·卡波特

人生是一部写得不好的第三幕,但还算不错的戏剧。

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The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

神的智慧赐给我们祷告,不是要我们得到地上美好的事物,而是要我们学会不需要它们而去做;不是作为我们逃避罪恶的手段,而是作为我们变得强大以面对罪恶的手段。

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.

如果你只是玩玩,把事情搞砸,人们会更尊重你。我们就是这么想的。你会得到更多的尊重,人们也会更努力地为你踢球。玩到你把它搞砸为止。一直玩到游戏结束。

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

人类的行为一旦开始,就会永远为伟大的事业而奋斗。我们的不死之身不在于我们是谁,而在于我们做了什么。

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

我目睹了群众的巨大能量。在这个基础上,完成任何任务都是可能的。

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

小说之于成人,犹如玩耍之于儿童;正是在那里,他改变了他生活的氛围和基调。

When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

当我五岁的时候,我知道我想演戏。