I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

  • -- Tim Cahill 蒂姆·卡希尔

我十几岁的时候就想成为一名作家,但是我从来没有告诉过任何人。在我看来,作家就像上帝一样,如果我说我在努力成为一名作家,那就太自大了。

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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

通过努力去做不可能的事,人总是能完成可能的事。那些谨慎地做了他们认为不可能做的事情的人从来没有向前迈出过一步。

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

所有你可能达到或发现的,你都将被视为真理的一个更大模式的片段,每个真正的学者都在从不同的方法中努力去发现这个模式。

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

当与人打交道时,记住你不是在与逻辑动物打交道,而是与情感动物打交道。

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

是的,孩子们很残忍。当然可以。孩子是非常残忍的小动物。