I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?

  • -- Joyce Maynard 乔伊斯·梅纳德

我不知道那些批评我讲这个故事的人真正反对的是什么:是因为我敢于讲这个故事吗?或者这个故事并不是他们想听的?

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

我们能经历的最美好的事情就是神秘。它是所有真正艺术和科学的源泉。如果一个人对这种情感是陌生的,他再也不能停下来思考,再也不能全神贯注地敬畏地站着,那他就等于死了:他的眼睛是闭着的。

There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.

人们的反应总是基于恐惧。人们认为,如果你批评一项参战的决定,那么你就是在说士兵的坏话——事实并非如此。

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

你在想我该如何制造出一种能够处理这种问题的仪器。

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

我一直想做的就是写歌,然后坐上公交车,为人们播放。