All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

所有重要的事实都是私人的事实。当它们公诸于众时,就不再成为真理;它们成为事实,或者至多成为公众性格的一部分;或者最坏的情况是,流行语。

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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

作家不可能被驯服,变得文明,甚至被治愈。目前科学界所知的唯一解决办法是为病人提供一间隔离室,在那里他可以独自忍受急性期,食物可以用棍子戳进他的身体。

Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.

只要私营部门或任何人拥有能够帮助提供高质量教育和提高标准的技能、知识和资源,我们就应该利用这些资源。

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

当公众知情权受到威胁,当言论自由和新闻自由的权利受到威胁,我们珍视的所有其他自由都将受到威胁。

I think probation would have been a more appropriate sentence. I don't think the facts of this case call out for a period of incarceration.

我认为缓刑会更合适。我认为这个案件的事实不适合监禁一段时间。

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

我不相信任何一个角色可以演这么久而不带着你的一部分。

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

乔治只要给我打电话就行了。他的想象力太奇妙了,我愿意演他能演的任何角色。

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

公众从这些广播中得不到一分钱的回报。

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.

每个人都有权拥有自己的观点,但不能拥有自己的事实。