You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.

  • -- Ellen Goodman 埃伦·古德曼

你可以教一个关心写专栏的人,但你不能教一个写专栏的人去关心。

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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.

人生能走多远,取决于你对年轻人的温柔,对老年人的同情,对奋斗者的同情,对弱者和强者的宽容。因为总有一天你会成为这一切。

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

我所遇到的一些作家是如何读完他们的书而不因无聊而死的,我无法理解。

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

永远不要为自己的感情而道歉。当你这样做的时候,你是在为真相道歉。

Writing is a mysterious activity.

写作是一种神秘的活动。