If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

  • -- Van Wyck Brooks 范·威克·布鲁克斯

如果人类本质上是邪恶的,那么谁还会费心去改善这个世界,而不是一开始就把它当作一份糟糕的工作而放弃呢?

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It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

在我看来,那些曾经很好的歌曲,我与它们的创作没有多大关系。这些话刚刚从我的袖子里爬了出来。

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.

我喜欢给年轻女性自信的感觉。这听起来太老套了,但却非常感人。

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

品味差时令人振奋的是冒犯他人的贵族乐趣。

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

从某种意义上讲,合作这个词所理解的一切都是邪恶的。