Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

  • -- Quentin Crisp 昆汀·奎斯普

体面必须是一种比它的反面更令人筋疲力尽的状态来维持。那些成功的人似乎需要充足的睡眠。

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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

我最喜欢去哈特福德。我想面对那里以保守主义为中心的思想,迫使它变得正派。

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

上帝已经被取代了,就像他在整个西方所做的那样,被尊重和空调所取代。

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

在高尔夫球场上取得的成就并不重要,重要的是正直和诚实。

Only when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, will you be successful.

只有当你像渴望呼吸一样渴望成功时,你才会成功。

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

现在我已经六十多岁了,我开始追求体面了。

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed.

从不成功的人认为成功是最甜蜜的。