Playwrights

“I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.”

“Медицина — моя законная жена, а литература — любовница.”

“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.”

“Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person.”

“My life as a writer and as a South African is so much tangled up that the one is inseparable from the other. I couldn't have written as I did about anything else.”

“You got to go out and meet life halfway. Can't just sit around waiting on it.”

“Was ist ein Einbruch in eine Bank gegen die Gründung einer Bank?”

“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?”

“在这个世界上，最痛苦的事就是在梦中清醒。”

“The most painful thing in this world is being awake in a dream.”

“Top girls don't put themselves forward, / top girls seize the day. / Top girls keep their nerve and look / as if they're having a wonderful time.”

“A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.”

“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.”

“One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”

“Das Theater muss die Toten zum Sprechen bringen, damit die Lebenden sich hören können.”

“The theater must make the dead speak so that the living can hear themselves. When the stage is empty, history enters.”

“Tusind Ord vil ikke efterlade saa dybt et Indtryk som en Handling.”

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”

“Così è (se vi pare).”

“It is so, if you think so.”

“Plus l'obstacle est puissant, plus on reçoit de gloire.”

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”

“je ne peux pas continuer, je vais continuer.”

“I can't go on, I'll go on.”

“Please open the curtains.”

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”

“原来姹紫嫣红开遍，似这般都付与断井颓垣。”

“So it turns out that brilliant purples and reds bloom everywhere, yet all are given over to broken wells and crumbling walls.”

“A prayer for the wild of heart kept in cages.”

“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”

“The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude. He pounces. In the same way, I think a writer simply writes.”