We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

  • -- Frances Burney 弗朗西斯·伯尼

我们不断地说一些话来支持我们已经给出的观点,而实际上我们并没有超过一半的意思。

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The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.

别人的真实不在于他向你揭示了什么,而在于他不能向你揭示什么。所以你们若要听他的话,就不要听他所说的,要听他所没有说的。

I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.

我想支持对人们有帮助的东西,也许抨击我认为危险的东西。所以我从每个人变成了我自己。

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

在很大程度上,男人和女人必须受他们所生活的社会的意见和态度的教育。

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

一个人必须知道如何面对意见;一个屈服于它的女人。

I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.

我认为这就是电视真人秀的作用所在——你不知道它的发展方向。

Writing has to support itself.

写作必须自给自足。