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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I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people.

当我遇到超现实主义者和达达主义者时,我还是个小男孩。我钦佩他们,这就是他们教给我的:要钦佩。赞赏是非常重要的。不能欣赏别人的人失去了灵魂的重要部分。我的灵魂在很小的时候就通过与受人尊敬的人的接触而发展起来。

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

对于那些真正喜欢研究人的人来说,小说比其他任何一种文学形式都更有趣的原因在于,在小说中,作者可以真实地说出真相,而不会让自己蒙羞。

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

暂时的成功是可以实现的,尽管缺乏其他基本素质,但没有努力就不能保持进步。

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

我教给孩子们的一件事是,我一直在为自己投资,我从未停止学习,从未停止成长。

Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests.

除此之外,我们还记得,在非洲流行的疟疾和其他疾病的抗体在检测中显示为艾滋病毒阳性。

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

文学是一种写作的艺术,它可以被反复阅读;新闻是马上就能抓住的东西。

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。

For me, I like to push myself... I hate feeling complacent or that I'm not learning.

对我来说,我喜欢强迫自己……我讨厌自满或没有学习。

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

不要第一个尝试新事物的人,也不要最后一个抛弃旧事物的人。

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。

The soul has many motions, body one.

灵魂有很多运动,身体只有一个。