One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

  • -- V. S. Naipaul V.S.奈保尔

一个人总是在最歇斯底里的时候写喜剧。

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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

我们生活在机器时代。历史上,喜剧演员第一次被迫为自己提供笑话和喜剧素材来与机器竞争。不管他知不知道,这位喜剧演员都在跑步机上逐渐被人遗忘。

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.

我们在控制,他们处于歇斯底里的状态。失败者,他们认为通过杀害平民和试图扭曲人民的感情,他们会赢。我想他们不会赢的,那些混蛋。

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk with self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

我认为,孩子们常常被要求在有话要说之前就开始写作。教他们用自我压抑的方式思考、阅读和交谈,他们会写作,因为他们无法控制自己。

I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father. I'm a man. I take great pride in that.

我告诉人们我是一个单口喜剧演员,每周两个小时。剩下的时间,我是别人的丈夫,我是别人的父亲。我一个人。我对此深感自豪。

I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.

我绝对是一个喜剧爱好者,只有通过做这么多喜剧,我才意识到它们对我的影响有多大。

When an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best.

当一个作家还活着的时候,我们通过他最差的作品来评价他的力量;当他死后,我们用他最好的方式来评价他。

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

任何歇斯底里的存在都被神秘、怀疑和保密所煽动。确凿的事实会让它冷静下来。

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

写诗的冲动就像发痒一样。当痒得够烦人的时候,你就挠它。

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

生物体最深层的功能之一就是向前看……生产的未来。

Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

好吧,我多年来一直在寻找一部喜剧,但没有任何成功。

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

人性中最深刻的原则是渴望被欣赏。

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

许多当代作家喝酒比写作多。