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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A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.

我们需要的是一个好的动机:没有教条主义的同情,没有复杂的哲学;只要理解他人是人类的兄弟姐妹,尊重他们的人权和尊严。我们人类能够互相帮助是我们人类特有的能力之一。

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

我从被歧视中学会了同情。所有发生在我身上的不幸都教会了我同情。

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

为什么人们总是问作家他们为什么停下来?我相信每个人都能在抽屉里找到几首珍贵的诗。

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

作家的默默无闻通常与他的无能成正比。