It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

  • -- David Allan Coe 大卫艾伦寇

你不应该只看建筑物的美;基础的建设将经受住时间的考验。

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If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

如果我们生活在古罗马或希腊,我会被认为体弱多病,毫无吸引力。时代要求瘦更好,因为一些奇怪的原因,我认为这是愚蠢的。

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

比例是古希腊庙宇的经典之处。它们就像巨大的石块,空气就是从这些柱子中间凿出来的。

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

在我上大学的时候,我对种族歧视问题变得非常警觉,我记得我最初的一次写作尝试与私刑有关。

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

散文是建筑,不是室内装饰,巴洛克风格已经结束。