It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

说服男人去做甚至是对他们自己有益的事情都需要时间。

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I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.

我希望我能给女孩们一个机会,让她们意识到她们可以一边游泳一边上学。一旦他们高中毕业就不能放弃。他们可以在以后的生活中继续这样做。

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.

这是一个漫长的过程,我的离婚。这一天变得不像第二天那么特别了,很快,我们停止了所有的谈话。当你无话可说的时候,这是一个悲伤的日子。

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

我想,没有什么,甚至没有犯罪,比这种没完没了的工作更反对诗歌,更反对哲学,更反对生活本身了。

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

好的作品应该唤起读者的感觉——不是下雨的事实,而是被雨淋的感觉。

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

一个好的广告应该像一个好的布道:它不仅要安慰受苦的人,也要折磨那些安逸的人。

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

那时我的读者还是文人;但必须有其他人等着读我的诗。

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

虽然穿蓝丝绒衣服的桃乐茜被男人羞辱和伤害,但基本上我能对她的感受做出反应。

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

一个渺小的人最可悲的证明莫过于不相信伟人。

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

我在唱诗班里唱了很多年,尽管我的家庭属于另一个教堂。

I choose to be alone for the sake of my own sanity.

为了自己的理智,我选择独处。