The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

  • -- Shana Alexander 莎娜亚历山大

可悲的事实是,优秀让人紧张。

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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

伟大的心灵总是会遭到平庸心智的激烈反对。如果一个人不是不加思索地屈从于遗传的偏见,而是诚实而勇敢地运用他的智慧,那么后者就无法理解这一点。

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

就人们对我的看法而言,它可以分为两类:一类是通过阅读报纸认识我的人,另一类是通过阅读我的书认识我的人。

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

你知道,小说的意义,或者对我来说,小说的意义,小说的礼物是深入人们的生活和个人经历。

Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.

卓越是我的存在。从不紧张,从不犹豫。