In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  • -- Florence King 佛罗伦萨国王

在社会事务中,毫无意义的习俗不仅是礼仪的蜜蜂蜇人之痛,也是道德秩序的毒蛇咬人之痛。

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

友谊只能存在于有着相似兴趣和观点的人之间。男人和女人由社会习俗而生,有着不同的兴趣和不同的观点。

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

提供一个作家不被惯例所阻碍——有些是这样的——参加这些惯例可以从必要的写作孤立中得到很好的休息。

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

唯一重要的是吃个蛋卷冰淇淋,吹个长号,种棵小树,上帝,现在你自由了。

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

在所有优秀的西部片中,好人总是有点可疑,因为他必须做出道德判断。

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

精神分析学,在治疗的伪装下,是完全消除人的道德能力。

It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.

没关系。重要的是你即将死去。