For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

  • -- Countee Cullen 康梯·卡伦

因为我们必须是这样或那样的东西,一种资产或一种负债,是帮助你飞翔的翅膀上的腱,还是把你束缚在地球上的锁链。

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If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

如果地球确实变得不适合人类居住,那主要是因为我们对地球和地球上的居民失去了礼貌。

The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.

我的问题是,如果某天早上醒来,我不喜欢做演员,我就会停下来。这不是我必须做的。这不是职业。

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

最后一幕是血腥的,不管剩下的部分多么令人愉快:最后一个小土扔到了我们的头上,这就是永远的结局。

I am a thing of beauty.

我是一个美丽的东西。