Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

  • -- Mason Cooley 梅森·库利

如果你失败了,你的朋友会觉得自己很优秀。如果成功了,他们会感到愤怒。

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However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.

然而,当我工作的时候,我并不觉得整个世界都在看着我——我从来没有想过这一点。我想的是让我的作品变得纯粹,如果它是纯粹的,那么它就可以被理解。这真的很直接。

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

在户外与朋友或陌生人讨论这个问题时,我的困难之一是,我很少能就战争的目标达成任何明确的一致意见。

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

他很枯燥,但也很有趣……我认为当我做我的行为时,人们往往会感到奇怪。除非你是个爱讽刺的人,否则这不是一个适合你呆的地方。

History is not a science. It is an art. One can succeed in it only through the imagination.

历史不是一门科学。这是一门艺术。一个人只有通过想象才能成功。

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

未来成功地创造了一个合适的过去,这难道不令人惊讶吗?

My friend tells me of my virtue. my enemy notes my fault.

我的朋友告诉我我的美德。我的敌人注意到了我的错误。