Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

  • -- Horace Walpole 霍勒斯·沃波尔

在悲剧或喜剧中,与其说情节、规则,甚至诗歌是伟大的一半,还不如说是对自然、对人物、对激情及其在各种情况下的运用的模仿。

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We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

我们有一种倾向,认为每个人都是白痴,每个人只是在做一些白痴的事情,而这个世界是由一群不那么神秘的白痴控制的。我想这是有道理的,但也不是真的。

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

我学过莎士比亚,那都是喜剧,即使是悲剧。

My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.

我的喜剧不是来自任何计算和研究。

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.

做经纪人给了我很大的满足感。