All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

  • -- Richard Le Gallienne 理查德·勒·加利恩

所有神话都不仅仅是幻想,而是随着时间的推移,由于人类经验的积累而获得而不是失去价值。

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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

不公正、贫穷、奴役、无知——这些都可以通过改革或革命来解决。但是人不仅仅是靠与罪恶作斗争来生活的。他们生活在积极的目标下,个人的和集体的,各种各样的目标,很少是可以预测的,有时是不相容的。

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

当我们诚实地问自己生命中谁对我们最重要时,我们常常发现,是那些人,他们没有给出建议、解决方案或治愈方法,而是选择与我们分享痛苦,用温暖而温柔的手触摸我们的伤口。

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

所以,虽然有时候我确实觉得黑暗的东西很有趣,但作为一名作家,我也想拥有人类所有的情感。

The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

人类所遭受的最深刻的失败是由一个人能够成为什么和他实际上已经成为什么之间的差异造成的。

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

一个银幕演员得到的补偿是,数百万人将在同一时间看到他的表演,而只有数百人会在舞台上看到。

Trust that everything happens for a reason, even when you're not wise enough to see it.

相信每件事的发生都是有原因的,即使你没有足够的智慧去发现它。

I would rather be with my kids than anybody else.

我宁愿和我的孩子们在一起,也不愿和任何人在一起。