A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

  • -- Thornton Wilder 桑顿·怀尔德

剧作家认为纯粹的事件,涉及人类的行为,比任何评论都更引人注目。

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In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

在我的世界里,历史可以归结为语言和艺术。没有人太在意曾经打过什么仗,谁赢了谁输了——除非有一幅画、一出戏、一首歌或一首诗讲述了这个事件。

I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.

我不相信被定型。如果我相信它,它可能会发生在我身上。你吸引你所创造的。

The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.

豇豆和大豆作为人类食品的作用直到最近才在这个国家得到承认。

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

如果你想要成功,不要去追求成功;做你自己热爱的事情并且相信它,成功自然到来。

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

不以任何形式的行动结束的谈话最好被完全压制。

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

每天对同一个人和蔼可亲会破坏人的神经。

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

当恐惧抓住你时,你必须采取一些行动来克服它。

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

我从来没有试图发表严肃的社会评论。

I used to be snow-white . . . but I drifted.

我曾经是雪白的……但我漂流。