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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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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。

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If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

如果我们现在让深夜脱口秀主持人承担与政客或牧师同样的道德责任，我就出局了。我走了。

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

作为一个普遍的事实，可以肯定地说，任何给人留下道德印象的画面都是一幅糟糕的画面。

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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

我们的信仰是对别人信仰的信仰，在最重要的事情上，这是最重要的。

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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

真正的我们比别人怎么看我们更重要。

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Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

今天的冲击就是明天的惯例。

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