The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

  • -- Wendell Berry 温德尔·贝里

过去是我们的定义。我们有充分的理由去努力摆脱它,或者摆脱它的缺点,但是我们只有在它的基础上添加更好的东西,才能摆脱它。

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Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

演戏和写作是相辅相成的。演员写作是因为他们喜欢文字,喜欢成为其他人——我们喜欢融入其他角色。

My actions are my only true belongings: I cannot escape their consequences. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

我的行为是我唯一真正的财产:我无法逃避它们的后果。我的行动是我立足的基础。

Even that fish may be caught that strives the hardest against it.

即使是最努力对付它的鱼也可能被抓住。

It is hard to live in Rome and strive against the Pope.

生活在罗马并与教皇对抗是很困难的。