For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

  • -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan 理查德·布林斯利·谢里丹

因为,如果一个人有什么值得称赞的地方,满足于此是愚蠢的虚荣心;如果这是滥用——为什么一个人总能从一个该死的好心肠的朋友那里听到这些呢?

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There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

在快节奏的硬核朋克中没有太多的职业机会,所以你没有太多的野心,只有和朋友们一起演奏音乐的爱和激情。

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

我的一个朋友这样描述:当他们出生的时候,就像一颗流星落在我们的房子里,把一切都炸开了。我们必须把所有的碎片都放回去。

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

小说是迄今为止人类表达的最高形式。为什么?因为它无法做到绝对。

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

艺术是人类灵魂最后的狡猾,它宁愿做任何事也不愿面对神。

I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.

我不知道为什么,但我很容易成为靶子。我不会做任何事来消除它。

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

我不认为任何事情是不现实的,如果你相信你能做到。