It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

  • -- William Hazlitt 威廉·哈兹里特

既不会读也不会写,总比什么都不会做要好。

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You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

你不能写教科书之外的人物,你也不能使用术语。你必须用一个六岁的孩子能听懂的语言清晰、简单、纯粹地说;然而,语言的含义和暗示,以及它的含意,都能吸引最高的智力。

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

不像我的祖父或哥哥,我实际上能够在赛马场上赚到一些钱。

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

我既不刻薄也不愤世嫉俗,但我确实希望政治思维不要那么不成熟。

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

我写的歌就像日记一样。我必须这样做才能保持清醒。

I don't think I will ever be able to forgive myself for what I have done.

我想我永远也不会原谅自己所做的一切。

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

无论是太阳还是死亡都不能用坚定的目光来看待。