Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

  • -- Christopher Morley 克里斯托弗·莫利

很多时候,你不得不假装参加一个你并不真正感兴趣的游行队伍,以达到你要去的地方。

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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

人类的知识从一开始就在变化,人们在某些方面的行为比他们没有知识的时候更加理性。他们花更少的时间跳雨舞,更多的时间播云。

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.

白人的血和骨头孕育了这个青铜种族,并在某种程度上给它留下了品质、倾向和能力,比如人类动物最高等级的遗传。

When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.

当你穿上西装,当你假装你很诚实,你在更高层次上抢劫,这些家伙应该……嗯,在我的小说里,我为他们保留了特殊的命运。

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

抽象艺术是对美学原则的宣示……正是在我们这个时代,我们才意识到纯粹的审美考虑。艺术绝不能是模仿。

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

情况变得如此糟糕,以至于我毕业的时候,我唯一做的阅读就是为了得到分数,我唯一做的写作也是为了得到分数。

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

人们成为女演员往往是因为他们不喜欢自己:他们假装自己是别人。

You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you.

当大俱乐部对你感兴趣时,你总是受宠若惊。

I'm not interested in the limelight.

我对聚光灯不感兴趣。