After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.

  • -- Harry Frankfurt 法兰克福

毕竟,每一种语言的使用无一例外地都有一些(如果不是全部的话)谎言的特征。

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Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.

说话就像弹琴;把双手放在琴弦上以停止琴弦的振动,与拨弄琴弦以奏出音乐一样重要。

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

我们的记忆片段在被想象成文字之前没有任何连贯性。时间是语言、语法和时态的属性。