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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

诗歌不是一种职业，而是一种徒劳无益的游戏。没有一个诚实的诗人能对他所写的东西的永久价值有十足的把握:他可能白白浪费了时间，把生活搞得一团糟。

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On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.

一方面，生活对人格来说是无限容易的，因为它从各个方面得到了刺激、兴趣、时间和意识的利用。它们把人带在身上，就像在一条小溪里，一个人几乎不需要为自己游泳。

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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

正如我们一直所了解的那样，无论好人还是坏人，都不会从恶棍的心里产生一种潜在的诚实，从诚实的人的内心深处产生一种野蛮的欲望——一种消灭的渴望，一种嗜血的欲望。

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This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.

这是一个激动人心的时刻。我相信，我们正站在一个新时代- -一个黄金时代- -的边缘，这个自由的时代将与世界历史上任何伟大的时代相匹敌，因为整个世界本身正在发生变化。

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To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.

坦白地说，如果我可以更瘦而不给我的生活带来很多痛苦和焦虑，我就会变瘦。但今天的现实是，我的生活比我的体重更重要——感谢上帝。

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So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.

所以我尽量不做新闻，如果你能在保持一定程度的匿名和做有趣的工作之间保持平衡，那么你就能希望在一定程度上延长职业生涯。

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The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

剧院最适合说:“瞧!这些东西。然而，大多数剧作家都用它来表达:“这种道德真理可以从观看这种行为中学到。”

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Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

小心智慧， 因为它知道的太多，所以什么也不知道 让你倒挂着， 把知识当作自己的心 从你嘴里掉出来。

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I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

我没有赢，事实上我被叫到校长办公室和我的父母商量。但那是我文学生涯的开始。

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I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

当他们把我救出来的时候，我并不沮丧。我总是把我的解职当作比赛的一部分。

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Remember that it is okay to change your mind about things you once thought you never would.

记住，改变你曾经认为永远不会改变的想法是可以的。

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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

坚强的心总是充满希望，并且总有理由充满希望。

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

除了印刷错误，诗人什么都能活下来。

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