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Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
让评论家说出他最喜欢的书的名字,就像让屠夫说出他最喜欢的猪的名字一样。
— John McCarthy 约翰·麦卡锡
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更多好句 ↗We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
我们还了解到,这个国家和西方世界并不垄断善良、真理和学术,我们开始欣赏那些构成美好世界不可或缺的要素。在学习的一生中,这也许是最重要的一课。
John Hope Franklin
约翰·霍普·富兰克林
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
来自纸上的事实与来自人的事实不一样。提供事实的人的可靠性和事实本身一样重要。
Harold S. Geneen
哈罗德·S·杰宁
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
也许艺术的深层需要是对自我欺骗的审视。
Robert Motherwell
罗伯特·马瑟韦尔
There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.
有些东西是真实的,你可以看到,可以观察到,比如月亮,草和其他东西。但要想让想法变成现实,它们必须在你的感官上发挥作用。
Jane Campion
简·坎皮恩
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
乐观主义者和悲观主义者的区别是什么?乐观的人笑着忘记,而悲观的人忘记笑。
Tom Bodett
汤姆·博德特
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
我们所有的词语都因使用不当而失去了锋芒。
Ernest Hemingway
欧内斯特·海明威