To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

  • -- Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. 小富兰克林·帕特里克·赫伯特

怀疑你自己的死亡就是知道恐怖的开始,无可辩驳地知道你是会死的就是知道恐怖的结束。

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I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

我羡慕有梦想和激情的人,但我不这么认为。我仍然没有“幸福”可以追随。对于像我这样的人来说——我怀疑这是大多数人——坚持一个“梦想”或一个“激情”是令人麻痹的。我喜欢有意义的工作。这很难……但这就够了。

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

我怀疑,文思枯竭主要折磨的是那些在写作之外有稳定而充足收入来源的人。到目前为止还没有出现问题。

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

反恐战争是一场我们没有发动的战争,但我们将完成它。

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

而恐怖本身就是世界无法控制的一个例子。