People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

人们更在意别人认为自己有品位,而不是别人认为自己善良、聪明或和蔼可亲。

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The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

因此,这些长老的职责决定了人民的权力;因为代表是由别人选择以他们的名义做他们有权以他们自己的名义做的事;或者更确切地说,是行使他们为之行动的人内在的根本力量。

My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

我最重要的是确保你接吻时口红的味道很好。到目前为止,它们的味道相当不错。

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

我想成为一名记者,我认为这是迷人的,我会在雨中遇到美丽的女人。

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

对引文(以及不协调引文的并列)的品味是一种超现实主义的品味。

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

我一直认为自己是一个大器晚成的人,所以我喜欢我的一些作品晚于早。

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

自由意志是一种幻觉。人们总是选择感知到的最大快乐的道路。