If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

  • -- Norman Cousins 卡森斯

如果某样东西因为你而活在别人身上,那么你就接近了不朽。

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Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.

有些人把散文家的部分写得很好,因而在这一过程中获得了不朽的成就;但是我们没有很多这样的书,它们在我们的书架上只占一个可怜的数字。遗憾的是,事情竟如此发展,因为一位优秀的散文家是你能想象到的最愉快的伴侣。

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

我认为每个人都应该上大学,拿到学位,然后做六个月的酒保和六个月的出租车司机。这样他们才会真正受到教育。

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

首先,上帝创造了傻瓜。那是练习。然后他制作了校董会。

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

灵魂不朽的学说与其说是安慰不如说是威胁。