This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

  • -- Frances Willard 弗兰西丝·威拉德

这似乎是我们所做的每件事的进步规律;它沿着螺旋运动而不是垂直运动;我们似乎在偏离轨道,但事实证明我们一直在向上移动。

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My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

我母亲得知她怀的是我,大约在第二次世界大战爆发的同一时间;她有家族魔幻现实主义的天赋,有一次她告诉我,就在那天,她去看了医生。

In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.

从某种意义上说,当你在路上的时候,它会更疯狂,也不那么稳定,但实际上它对我很健康,因为它让我远离孤立,我经常这样做。

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

其次,书中有很多神奇的地方是你不能去的,比如霍格沃茨和中土世界,所以我想把故事设定在一个孩子们可以真正去的地方。

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

有时候不说话是件轻而易举的事,而另一些时候,这比举起钢琴还要累人。

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

我不做当代歌曲,除非有什么让我大吃一惊的东西出现。

I hate arguing with someone i really care about.

我讨厌和我真正在乎的人争论。