5/21/2014

能在社會上出頭的人,都是那些有準備且能尋找他們想要⋯⋯的環境,如果找不到,他們就會創造環境。“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”

蕭伯納的一句話(Bernard Shaw's words)
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”(Mrs. Warren's Profession)(能在社會上出頭的人,都是那些有準備且能尋找他們想要⋯⋯的環境,如果找不到,他們就會創造環境。)

這句話出自十九世紀末、二十世紀初期英國劇作家蕭伯納(Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950)的劇本《華倫太太的職業》(Mrs. Warren's Profession. 1893)。這部劇本,描寫華倫太太與女兒Vivie間的關係。受限於女性當時工作環境,華倫太太在歐洲經營妓院,供女兒念完大學。儘管Vivie一開始理解媽媽的苦心與無奈,但當媽媽在衣食無缺後,仍不願放棄妓院行業,Vivie揭穿媽媽虛偽與愛慕虛榮的假象。

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