A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

  • -- Christopher James Hampton 克里斯托弗·詹姆斯·汉普顿

在这个多事之秋,许多失望和不幸都是文学和相关艺术的直接结果。我们相信,任何把自己的生命和精力用于幻想的人,从根本上来说都是不够的。

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I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I'm solar powered. Some days I'm wind powered. And some people in this room might think I'm hybrid gas-powered. You'll just have to guess which it is today.

有人说我精力充沛。秘诀是我使用可再生资源。有时候我用太阳能。有时候我是靠风力发电的。在座的一些人可能认为我是混合动力车。你只需要猜猜今天是哪一天。

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

我的经验告诉我,如果你更加努力,投入更多的精力和时间,坚持不懈,你会得到更好的结果。它来自于工作。

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

人类文明的奠基人是第一个以辱骂代替石头的人。