Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

你是否只从那些仰慕你、温柔待你、支持你的人身上吸取了教训?那些与你争竞,与你争竞的,岂不是给你大教训吗?

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The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

帮助你最多的书是那些让你思考最多的书。最难的学习方法是轻松阅读;但是,伟大的思想家所写的伟大著作是思想的航船,满载着真善美。

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

当然,艺术的错觉是让人相信伟大的文学作品与生活息息相关,但事实恰恰相反。生活是无定形的,文学是形式的。

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

我认为写文学作品应该给人带来乐趣。还应该讲些什么呢?它不是核物理。它必须给人带来快乐,否则就一文不值。

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

我们总是能够唱得很好,并很好地融合在一起;这是我们的礼物。但除此之外,我们真的是两个不同的人。

Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It's nothing to be admired.

信仰意味着有目的地中止批判性思维。没什么好羡慕的。

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

帮助那些不愿自助的人是浪费钱。

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

我一直说,艺术评论家可以把艺术周围的政治放在一边。

I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.

我天生就很瘦,戴着牙套,所以我不是一个可爱的模特。

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

不能从历史中吸取教训的人注定要重蹈覆辙。

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

粗心大意的人最钦佩办事迅速。

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

要有智慧,就必须有无知。