Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

  • -- Will Durant 威尔·杜兰特

每一种恶行都曾是一种美德,并可能再次受到尊敬,就像战争时期的仇恨会受到尊敬一样。

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I've done a lot of interviews of the last few years, and I've actually started a list of questions that it would be fun to ask an author, but no respectable interviewer would ever ask. Since I'm not respectable, I'm going to start doing interviews with some authors I know, just for fun.

在过去的几年里,我做过很多采访,实际上,我已经开始了一系列的问题,问一个作家会很有趣,但没有一个可敬的采访者会问这些问题。由于我不受人尊敬,我打算开始采访一些我认识的作家,只是为了好玩。

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

唯一不能原谅的恶习是虚伪。伪君子悔改本身就是伪善。

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

我很早就觉得自己不会成为一个受人尊敬的公民。

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

孤独者最大的恶习是对食物的崇拜。