True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

  • -- Kurt Vonnegut 库尔特·冯内古特

真正的恐惧是某天早上醒来发现你的高中班级正在管理这个国家。

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When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

当我在晚宴剧场在高中的时候,我正在跟一个女人一直在业务一段时间,我说我想要采取行动,这就是我想做的与我的生活,她说如果你真的那么你需要磨练每一学科。

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

你最珍贵、最有价值的财产和最强大的力量都是无形的。没人能拿走它们。你,只有你,才能给予他们。你会因你的付出而得到丰盛。

I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

我曾经有一张清单,上面列着我的同学们想要什么样的艺术材料。我要去伦敦西区,花一整天的时间打点东西。

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

这种对中产阶级的侵蚀正在世界各地发生。贫富差距的扩大总是伴随着这样一个过程。

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

人们说奴隶是从非洲来的。事实并非如此:人们被从非洲带走,其中包括医生和牧师,并被奴役。

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

的确只有当我们失去时才知道曾经拥有的是什么,同样,只有当我们拥有了才知道曾经失去了什么。

I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.

我是一个妈妈,如果我早上能洗澡,我就很幸运了。幸运的是,指甲油还留在我的脚趾上。不过,我在保养方面一直很差。

I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'

我总是告诉我的孩子们,‘你们必须面对你们的恐惧。如果没有,就像从一只会咬你后背的狗那里逃跑一样。”

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

灵感是一种觉醒,是所有人能力的加速,它体现在所有的艺术成就上。

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

对所有人都要有礼貌,但对少数人要有亲密的关系,让那些少数人在你给他们信心之前得到充分的考验。

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

如果我能帮助一个孩子在他们的生活中找到一种对音乐的爱好,甚至是一种激情,那是一件很棒的事情。

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

那些把我们的生活比作梦想的人是对的……我们醒着睡,醒着睡。

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

一天早上,我醒来后,陷入了心理休克。我忘了我是自由的。

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

理想的情况是,一本书没有顺序,读者必须找到自己的顺序。

I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

初中时,我有一位经典的体育老师,他总是系着举重运动员的腰带。

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

当我早上醒来的时候,我感觉自己像一个不交税的亿万富翁。

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

我所受的教育是非常直接的郊区工人阶级教育。

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

而恐怖本身就是世界无法控制的一个例子。

The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.

黑夜具有白天无法比拟的恐怖能力。

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

我想所有的作家都担心井水枯竭。

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

我生长在一个思想开明的不可知论家庭。

Great art picks up where nature ends.

伟大的艺术始于自然的终结。