If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

  • -- Thomas Wolfe 托马斯·沃尔夫

如果一个人有天赋却不能运用,那他就失败了。如果他只使用了其中的一半,他已经部分失败了。如果他充分利用了这一切,他就成功了,并赢得了很少有人知道的满足和胜利。

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It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.

这是一种追求,而不是坐等结果。部分原因是我发现自己被定型了,就像每个人一样,除非他们追求的角色与他们之前所做的非常不同。

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

我确实会重读,有点痴迷,部分原因是我对同一本书在人生不同阶段的阅读方式感到惊讶,部分原因是我有种回到老朋友身边的感觉。

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

我认为为竞争对手找个丈夫是有辱人格的。如果你失败了,那是耻辱;如果你成功了,那是平庸。

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.

工人阶级最大的错误就是告诉他们的孩子他们不会成功。

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

畅销书是庸才的点睛之笔。

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

我只是不想让我的脸成为我的天赋。