Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

从前站在前的,当退到后;从前站在后的,当进到前。顽固的人,愚顽的人,污秽的人,当推陈出新。

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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

一个演员必须诠释生活,为了这样做,他必须愿意接受生活所提供的所有经历。事实上,他必须寻求更多的生活,而不是生活放在他的脚下。

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

明天太阳不会升起,这是一个明白易懂的命题,它所包含的矛盾,并不比肯定太阳会升起来得多。

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

为什么你要急着移除任何伤害你眼睛的东西,而如果有什么东西影响了你的灵魂,你就把治疗推迟到明年?

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

对我来说,争论就是我呼吸的空气。无论提出什么主张,我都不能不相信对方,不能不为它辩护。

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

如果我做的很好,它就不会进步。他们会说那是偷来的,或者是碰巧的。

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

如果我出丑了,谁在乎呢?我不害怕任何人对我的看法。

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

在我的工作中,我从来没有使用过任何事先知道的东西。

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

当我讲完后,艾灵顿公爵站了起来,开始鼓掌。

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

没有什么比偏执狂的良心更危险的了。

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.

我不会当着别人的面摔门,我也不是偏执狂。

I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.

我要是为了钱而这样做,那就太傻了。

I would offer them my friendship.

我会向他们表示我的友谊。

Injustice can never be stood for.

不公正永远不能容忍。