To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

对于人类真正的艺术家来说,所谓的不礼貌往往是最生动和最重要的。

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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

文学史上最著名的,也是最难理解的事实之一是,至少在西欧文学中,散文式小说很晚才出现,而在两种伟大的古典语言中,我们所谓的散文式小说却相对缺乏。

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.

在入口处,我光着脚踩在泥地上,这里,阵阵热浪;在我的背上,白云。我瞪了又瞪。我被召,似乎是要这样:因为事物本来就是荣耀的。

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

礼貌是关键。比如说,当你长大了,走在大街上,你要告诉每个人早上好。每一个人。你不能超过一个人。

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

未来叫做“也许”,这是唯一可能叫做未来的东西。重要的是不要让它吓到你。

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

你听说了吗,赢得今天是件好事?我还说,失败是件好事,因为在胜利的同时,战斗也以同样的精神失败了。

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

一个人可能并不总是他看起来的样子,但他看起来的样子总是他的重要组成部分。

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

灵巧的,灵巧的:能以同样的技巧挑选右边的口袋或左边的口袋。

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

他把侯爵的风度和卫理公会教徒的道德结合起来。

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

我不喜欢高级文学,但我认为我所有的书都是文学作品。

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

图画不能画得太生动。