If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

  • -- Edith Wharton 伊迪丝·沃顿

要是我们不再试图快乐就好了,我们会玩得很开心。

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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

我们不应该回头看,除非是为了从过去的错误中汲取有用的教训,并从代价高昂的经验中获益。

Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal.

很多时候,我遇到一句我不记得说过的话。所以,一方面,这是非常奉承,这是如此超现实。

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

所以每次我处理一个新课题的时候,我都试着重新发明我自己的眼睛。但这很难,因为每个人都有自己的风格。你没办法。

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

不要浪费一分钟不开心。如果一扇窗户关闭了,跑到下一扇窗户——或者砸开一扇门。

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

我的写作不是来自快乐的时刻,而是来自挣扎和悲伤。

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

我们不是从自己身上学得比现在更好。