Never judge a book by its movie.

  • -- J.W. Eagan J.W.伊根

永远不要以貌取人。

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I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

我永远不会忘记,有一天早上,我走进去时,身上青肿得很厉害——头天晚上很难受——一个客户对我说,‘天哪,维达尔,你的脸怎么了?我说,“哦,没什么,夫人,我只是被一个发夹绊倒了。”

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.

我读公立学校的时候,比我的年级提前了五六年。我很无聊。我和我的一些老师订了一个合同,如果我不提太多的问题,我可以在教室后面工作。

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.

我是一本书的作者,也是导演,我是所有的演员,我是特效师和灯光技师:我就是这些。所以,是好是坏,完全由我决定。

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

以德报德是没有用的。善良可以成为它自己的动机。我们因仁慈而仁慈。

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

没有读过的书对任何人都没有好处。故事发生在读者的脑海中,而不是印在纸上的符号之间。

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

其实有两件事能让你变得聪明——你读的书和你遇到的人。

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

我想,文学的考验在于,我们自己是否因为阅读而活得更有激情。

Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.

阅读让我觉得除了自己的生活,我还经历了一千种生活。

I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.

我想当瑞秋走进房间的时候我们就知道我们在看电影。

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

诗人从不记笔记。在恋爱中你从不做笔记。

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

所以一部失败的电影不会毁了我的事业。

Every time you judge yourself, you hurt yourself

每次你评价自己的时候,你都伤害了自己