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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When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.

当你扮演一名医生时,你必须看起来你能做到,但实际上你并没有去做。这不像你学习如何切开一个人然后去做手术。你必须想到一个人,而不是去想象那是什么样子。

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

写小说使我对人的一生中未知的东西产生了一种持久的敬意,让我有了一种去哪里寻找线索、如何追随、如何联系的感觉,在错综复杂的世界中找到一条清晰的线。

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

你必须相信上帝,才能说有些事情是人类不应该知道的。我不认为有什么事情是男人不应该知道的。有些愚蠢的事情是人们不应该做的。

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

我很少看到一个机械师在创作过程中表现出不好的一面,也从未见过一个机械师不认真、不令人印象深刻的一面。

The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

最重要的是上帝的祝福,如果你相信上帝,相信自己,你就没有什么好担心的。

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

生活就是这样构建的:一件事不符合、不可能、也不会符合人们的期望。

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

生命中最重要的一件事,就是有一天我们遇到了一种使我们吃惊的思想。

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

先生,再这样说,我就用麦克风线掐死你!

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

显然,我不认为监狱是解决所有问题的答案。