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。

I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.

我是个典型的排行老二。我是中介。把自己的需求放在一边,以确保每个人都快乐。即使经过多年的治疗,也很难改变你的本性。

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

渴望被他的同伴们观察、考虑、尊重、赞扬、喜爱和钦佩,这是人类心灵中发现的最早也是最敏锐的性情之一。

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

文学是一种人类活动,它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

我没有学生朋友可以和我谈论文学。我的导师是个很好的人,很有魅力,但是他没有文学鉴赏力。

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

抛开任何关于两个主题的专栏。这意味着这位权威人士在决定写些什么的时候退缩了。

I'm learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

我明白了完美并不重要。事实上,如果你放任自流,它就会毁了你。

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.

我认为,对于一个年轻的记者来说,现在为网络写作比为印刷版写作要好。

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

我花了很多年的时间学习我的手艺,在镜头前摔倒。

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。

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

直到爱变得脆弱,爱才算爱。