Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

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

每个实际的国家都是腐败的。好人不能太遵守法律。

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The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.

作家有两种信仰:实际写作和公开写作。相信自己的努力和汗水。以及对上帝的信仰,或者随便你怎么称呼它。然后声音就会出现。信仰很重要。

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

学会读书的人越多,学会谋生的人就越少。这是一点教育。它会因为你的实际工作而影响你。你知道的越多,你就越觉得别人欠你的钱越多。

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

幽默感…需要护甲。一个人内心的喜悦和嘴角的笑意是一个人内心深处对生活有很好的把握的标志。

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

如果上帝没有让吃喝成为一种必需,也没有什么比吃喝更令人厌烦的了。

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

烈士不能受辱。每一鞭都是名誉的舌头;每座监狱都有一个更辉煌的住所。

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

男人并没有改变他们的行为,所以女人必须在某种程度上增强自己的力量来抵挡男人。

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

宁可被锈死,也不愿被永磨净尽。

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

我生命中所有的男人都是两件事:史诗和流行病。

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

你既可以是一个普通的局内人,也可以是一个普通的局外人。

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

每个伟大男人的背后都有一个翻白眼的女人。