The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

  • -- Tom Wolfe 汤姆·沃尔夫

公众接受或拒绝现代艺术中的任何东西,这种观念仅仅是浪漫主义小说。比赛结束了,奖杯在公众知道发生了什么之前就已经分发出去了。

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I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for us to build up these enormous societies, and spread around the globe, and develop the technology that I think no one can doubt is unique to humans.

我想知道,与尼安德特人相比,完全现代人类发生了什么变化,从而产生了不同。是什么让我们有可能建立这些庞大的社会,并传播到全球,发展我认为没有人能怀疑的人类独有的技术。

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

我不得不承认我是个酒鬼,这是主要原因。我认为你必须这么做。但我尽量不说我是个酒鬼。我宁愿说是我得了一种病。

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

我开始接受领跑者的生活是艰难的,他会比大多数人遭受更多的伤害,而这些伤害中有许多不是偶然的。

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

在现代商业中,最可怕的不是骗子,而是不知道自己在做什么的诚实的人。

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

我们偶尔会被真相绊倒,但大多数人会振作起来,匆匆离开,就像什么都没发生过一样。

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things

公众的期望和个人的健康是两码事

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

事实上我不记得我出生的时候,一定是在我昏迷的时候。

Many people still regard many users of public services as undeserving.

许多人仍然认为许多使用公共服务的人不值得。

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

丈夫永远不会变好;他们只是变得熟练。

The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

公众只是一个成倍增长的“我”。