Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

  • -- Tony Dorsett 托尼·多塞特

一切都从你自己开始,从你决定你的人生要做什么开始。我告诉孩子们,这是一个残酷的世界,这个世界会让他们向左或向右弯曲,这取决于他们决定向哪个方向弯曲。

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Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

小说是一种产生同情心的机器,把我们从懒惰中拯救出来。生活是善良的还是残酷的?是的,文学的答案。人是好是坏?没错,文学说。但与其他认知系统不同的是,文学拒绝消除一个事实而代之以另一个事实。

There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens.

当孩子死后,父母不得不做出许多残酷的决定。殡仪馆馆长要了一张铺在棺材上的床单,我送来了舒适的法兰绒床单,淡蓝的,上面画着快乐的雪人,那是刚和冬天的床单放在一起的。

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

我们应该为年老做好准备,这样,这个世界就不会迫切需要从对下一个世界的冥想中吸收老年。看到老态龙钟的瘦削的手在坟墓上做棺材是可怕的。

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

工作是必要的,即使不是出于兴趣,至少也是出于绝望。从各方面来看,工作与其说是无聊,不如说是自娱自乐。

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

我们应该让更多的女性担任各种管理职位,因为女性几乎决定了家里的一切。

I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited.

我只是想让我的大脑和身体保持活跃。最困难的是我的身体有点受限。

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

我可以遇到可怕的人,最终通过他们的眼睛看到这个世界,看到他们的弱点,他们的需求。

I know that whatever you decide, you’ll be happy, Summer, and that is the only thing I could ever wish.

我知道无论你做什么决定,你都会开心的,夏天,这是我唯一的愿望。

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

清醒过来,你就能看到和听到你以前无法听到的一切。

There are but two states to the primitive mind: warring and boring.

原始思维只有两种状态:战争和无聊。

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

有哪个心智健全的人能生活在这个世界上而不疯狂呢?