Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

  • -- Margaret Heffernan 玛格丽特·赫弗南

语言是人们思考的方式。当你误用词语时,你就会降低清晰而真实地思考的能力。

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I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt.

我喜欢写一些早熟、问题少年的故事,他们让人疏远,但又有点讨人喜欢。因为我清楚地记得我生命中的那段时光。我觉得自己比以前更麻烦了,但我只记得当时的感觉。

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

重要的不是房子。而是成功的能力。无论你走到哪里,你的大脑和手中都带着它……带着你的生命走到哪里是一回事。另一件事,总是去其他地方寻找它。

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

很少有人清楚地知道自己想要什么。大多数人甚至不知道当他们把一便士扔进喷泉时,希望是什么。

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

说话的能力并不能使你变得聪明。

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

描述幸福就是减少幸福。