The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

  • -- Francois Marie Arouet 阿鲁埃

华丽的风格并不不适合公众演讲或演说,它们只相当于赞美。当没有更实在的东西可说的时候,那些轻浮的美人就在她们的位置上了;但是华丽的风格应该从恳求、布道或说教作品中去除。

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But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

但即使是金子也不是一切:只有一个狂热者,一个相当愚蠢的狂热者,才会说这种小说风格总结并耗尽了小说所能给予和做的一切美好。

I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.

我喜欢把电影制作不仅仅看作是一种个人自我膨胀的行为,而是一种公共服务的行为。

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

我可以玩朋克摇滚,而且我喜欢玩朋克摇滚,但是在我玩朋克摇滚之前,我喜欢其他所有类型的音乐。

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

剧本创作进入你的血液,你无法阻止它。至少在制片人或公众告诉你之前不会。