The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

  • -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 伊丽莎白·巴雷特·布朗宁

希腊人在他们的悲剧中庄严地说:“没有人在死前被称为幸福的;”对此,我还要补充一句:“没有人在死前被称为不幸福的。”

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Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.

每次我听我的独奏,我会听到一些我喜欢的东西,然后另一个短语,我不能忍受。你必须接受你所扮演的角色。而录音媒体就会把这些信息传给我们。当我在现场演奏时,我并不这么想。

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

那么什么是悲剧呢?在伊丽莎白时代,人们认为以死亡结尾的戏剧是一场悲剧,但近年来,我们开始明白,活着有时比死亡更悲惨。

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.

我认为幸福是一种副产品。我不认为你能追求幸福。我认为这句话是开国元勋们犯的为数不多的错误之一。

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

戏剧这个词来自希腊。它的意思是看的地方。它是人们看到生活和社会状况真相的地方。

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

如果说科幻小说是现代科技的神话,那么它的神话就是悲剧。