All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

  • -- Robert B. Parker 罗伯特·B·派克

毫无疑问,我们昨天的工作是我所做过的最好的工作。而读者们则成群结队地离开了。

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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

只要生产和交换生活资料的竞争制度继续下去,艺术就会继续退化;如果这一体系要永远持续下去,那么艺术就注定要消亡,也必然会消亡;也就是说,文明将会消亡。

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

鼓都有自己的特点——每个鼓都有一个听起来最好的地方——在那里它们发出声音,产生共鸣,而且头部表面不会太松或太紧,主要是为了让头部有一个很好的回弹。

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

没有人相信圣经所说的是真的:他总是相信圣经所说的是他的意思。

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

年长的女性是最好的,因为她们总是认为这可能是最后一次。