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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

语言就像金钱，没有了它，就可能存在特定的相对价值，并被人们所感知，但不能被归结为一个共同的分母。

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You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.

你永远不可能为所有人创造所有的东西，也不可能总是迎合最广泛的需求。我留意做我感兴趣的主题。他们会移动我吗?感兴趣我?让我看?当我遇到一些挑衅性的、令人不安的东西时，它会吸引我。

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So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.

所以每当我听到披头士，我总是觉得我和其他人有很多共同之处。

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I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

我喜欢笑，这是我的主要爱好。我喜欢滥用英语。

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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

从长远来看，所有的真理都只是澄清了的常识。

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Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

作家让自己被语言所吸引。

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