The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

好与坏,好与坏,只是简单的帮助或伤害。

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I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

在我的一生中,我学到了两个教训:第一,对于人类悲剧,没有足够的文学、心理或历史答案,只有道德答案。第二,正如绝望只能从别人那里得到一样,希望也只能从别人那里得到。

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

如果这个故事足够好,如果它足够有想象力,如果它足够感人,它将比纯粹的信息更深刻,并改变一个人的生活两度。这是一个巨大的成就。

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

通常的方法——通过长时间的退稿,修改我的手稿,并不断尝试一次又一次。最后我很幸运地找到了一个好的经纪人。

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

每个人,任其自行其是,都会对语言中发生的事情形成一种与事实相去甚远的看法。

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

邪恶势力要想在这个世界上取得胜利,只需要足够多的好人袖手旁观。

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

美德不能脱离现实而不成为邪恶的原则。

The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.

英语是一项正在进行的工作。玩得开心。

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

太忙于行善的人,找不到时间去行善。