History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

  • -- Cotton Mather 马瑟

历史是一个充满赞扬和指责的事件的故事。

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I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

我意识到,我从来没有真正了解过我的客人的真实生活,我必须满足于知道,当我采访某人时,我得到的是事实与真相、自我神话、自我欺骗、选择性记忆和错误记忆的结合。

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

我过去常常把我的问题归咎于别人。但我清醒的那一刻,如果你想这么说的话,是有一天我看着镜子里的自己,突然哭了起来。我不仅看起来很糟糕,而且我知道我的问题出在我自己身上。

People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?

人们责怪我是因为这些水管坏了,但是我问你,如果水管没有坏,我有责任修理它们吗?

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.

你以为你知道这个故事的结局,但你不知道。