There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

如果人民失去他们的粗暴和反抗精神,暴政就不会在任何一周、任何一天、任何时刻降临这个国家。

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Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.

严肃艺术是艺术家个人的作品,他们的艺术与风格无关,因为他们与风格或大众的需求一点关系也没有。他们的工作是不顾时代而兴起的。

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

正如做最邪恶、最邪恶的事需要精神和才能一样,即使是最邪恶的事也需要某种麻木不仁,在其他情况下,我们称之为愚蠢。

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.

我收到很多信。不仅来自儿童,也来自成人。几乎每个星期,每个月,世界上一些鸭子过街的地方都会有剪报。

On entering a country, ask what is forbidden, on entering a village, ask what are the customs, on entering a private house, ask what should not be mentioned.

进入一个国家,问什么是禁止的,进入一个村庄,问什么是风俗习惯,进入一个私人住宅,问什么是不应该提到的。

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

他不能先到什么地方去,除非家里有人叫他去,不过他可以随自己的意思去。

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

每一个不太愚蠢或太自以为是而不去注意正在发生的事情的记者都知道,他所做的在道德上是站不住脚的。

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

无限的权力容易腐蚀拥有它的人的思想;诸位大人,我知道,法律的终点就是暴政的起点。

When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.

圣灵所应许的大应许,在五旬节既已成就,就不单在使徒身上成就了。

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

普遍地启发人民,身体和精神的暴政和压迫就会像邪恶的幽灵一样在黎明时分消失。

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

带着艺术家的骄傲,你必须向现存的每一种力量的墙壁吹响你反抗的小喇叭。

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

我看到的比以前多得多。其结果是使我沮丧、悲伤,使我受到极大的伤害。

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

我真的很想有一天拥有一个工作室,成为一名电影制作人。

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

人们经常问我如何使事情变得有趣。我不把事情弄得有趣。

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

好吧,好吧,最好的术语将会过时:该死的家伙已经有他们的时代了。

The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.

生活中的人和成功反映了你的信念。

I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.

我还有一周半的时间,一切都不确定了。