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.

  • -- Tom Stoppard 汤姆·斯托帕德

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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Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

明智的人走的是老路;天才,从来没有。这就是为什么大众,并非完全没有理由,如此乐意把伟人当作疯子。

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

每次我想放弃的时候,如果我看到一件有趣的纺织品,印什么都行,突然我就会看到一个收藏。

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

剧作家生活在一个被占领的国家。如果你不能那样生活,那就别再呆在这里了。

Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.

思想不会消亡,不是因为它们是人类构想出来的,而是因为时间孕育了它们。

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

你不能以剧作家的身份谋生。你勉强过得去。

Good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

美好的事物会分崩离析,而美好的事物也会一同破碎。