The dialogue! Good dialogue again is character, marshalled so as continually to stimulate interest or excitement. The reason good dialogue is seldom found in plays is merely that it is hard to write, for it requires not only a knowledge of what interests or excites, but such a feeling for character as brings misery to the dramatist's heart when his creations speak as they should not speak--ashes to his mouth when they say things for the sake of saying them--disgust when they are "smart."英文原著 · 《Concerning Letters》
ANCIENT POEMS, BALLADS, AND SONGS OF THE PEASANTRY. Contents
Poems:
The plain-dealing man. The vanities of life. The life and age of man. The young man's wish. The midnight messenger; or, a sudden call from an earthly glory to the cold grave. A dialogue betwixt an exciseman and death. The messenger of mortality; or life and death contrasted in a dialogue betwixt death and a lady.英文原著 · 《Ancient Poems》
England's alarm; or the pious christian's speedy call to repentance Smoking spiritualized. The masonic hymn. God speed the plow, and bless the corn-mow. A dialogue between the husbandman and servingman. A dialogue between the husbandman and the servingman. The Catholick. The three knights. The blind beggar of Bednall Green.英文原著 · 《Ancient Poems》
Darwin takes the liberty to send by this post to the Editor a New Zealand newspaper for the very improbable chance of the Editor having some spare space to reprint a Dialogue on Species. This Dialogue, written by some [sic] quite unknown to Mr. Darwin, is remarkable from its spirit and from giving so clear and accurate a view of Mr. [sic] theory. It is also remarkable from being published in a colony exactly 12 years old, in which it might have [sic] thought only material interests would have been regarded.英文原著 · 《Canterbury Pieces》
It is curious that in this correspondence Darwin makes no reference to the fact that he had already had in his possession a copy of Butler's dialogue and had endeavoured to induce the editor of an English periodical to reprint it. It is possible that we have not here the whole of the correspondence which passed between Darwin and Butler at this period, and this theory is supported by the fact that Butler seems to take for granted that Darwin knew all about the appearance of the original dialogue on the ORIGIN OF SPECIES in the PRESS.英文原著 · 《Canterbury Pieces》
The art of writing true dramatic dialogue is an austere art, denying itself all license, grudging every sentence devoted to the mere machinery of the play, suppressing all jokes and epigrams severed from character, relying for fun and pathos on the fun and tears of life. From start to finish good dialogue is hand-made, like good lace; clear, of fine texture, furthering with each thread the harmony and strength of a design to which all must be subordinated.英文原著 · 《Concerning Letters》
Only in your version, bugs bunny tries to have a dialogue with the shotgun.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
So, opening dialogue. For our business, I would like a pair of Louboutins.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
But if you're too scared to start a national dialogue, maybe I'll take my ideas home.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
How the hell do they expect me to learn five pages of dialogue in one day?美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》