The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

  • -- William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳

每一个艺术家的目标都是通过人为的手段来捕捉运动,也就是生命,并把它固定住,这样一百年后,当一个陌生人看到它时,它又动了起来,因为这就是生命。

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Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

即使通过直接经济手段争取平等,也只能导致官方强制实行的不平等- -在新的等级秩序中对每个人的地位作出专制的决定。

When people walk away from you, let them go your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.

当人们离开你的时候,让他们离开你。你的命运永远不会和离开你的人联系在一起,这并不意味着他们是坏人。这只是意味着他们在你故事中的角色结束了。

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

要明白朋友来来去去,但你应该把握住一些珍贵的朋友。你年纪越大,就越需要那些在你年轻时就认识你的人。

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

我是一个艺术家,我需要进入自己的内心,发挥创造力,成为别人,这是我的一部分。我想我不会完全放弃。

I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.

我很兴奋,很开心,很紧张,很焦虑,所有这些关于再次为喷气机效力的感觉。如果我没有很高的期望,我就不会回来了。

I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.

我在南非的一个农场长大,我在那里被发现,他们把我送到了欧洲。从那以后,一切都发生得太快了。

I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

我一直吃得很健康,全是有机食品,没有糖,白面粉,没有人造食品。我太严格了…没有很多肉!

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

总有一天,某种东西似乎在召唤我们走上一条特定的道路……这是我必须做的,这是我必须拥有的。这就是我。

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

当你和孩子们一起阅读时,你遇到的一个问题是,一旦他们喜欢某样东西,他们想让你读上一百遍。

The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.

宇宙不仅仅是运动中的物质。我们是由一位寻求我们的善的造物主创造出来的。

Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

爱是如此令人困惑——你告诉一个女孩她看起来很棒,你做的第一件事是什么?把灯关掉!

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

如果你放弃所有让你想活到一百岁的东西,你就能活到一百岁。

It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.

这是我生活中的一种模式——当我遇到麻烦时,我试着摆脱它,从我很小的时候。

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

我渴望捕捉一切展现在我面前的美,这种渴望终于得到了满足。

I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.

我年轻的时候很害羞。当我第一次去利物浦的时候,我有一年没有说一句话。

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

我认为一夫一妻制是人为的。我不认为这是我们与生俱来的。

We all grow into the beautiful person that we’re supposed to be - some earlier, some later.

我们都成长为我们应该成为的那个美丽的人——有些早,有些晚。

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

每个人都珍视生命;但亲爱的人把荣誉看得比生命更宝贵。

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

是的,浪漫喜剧是最难拍的电影。也许一年一个就行。

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

美术是人的手、头和心相结合的艺术。

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

现实意味着你活到死。真正的事实是没有人想要现实。

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

当我们停止思考时,我们的观点就会固定下来。

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

一个没有远大目标的灵魂,就像一只没有舵的船。

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

一本书是一份礼物,你可以打开一遍又一遍。

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

我是个艺术家,不是学术民俗学者。

Every time I went on TV I got a threat.

我每次上电视都受到威胁。

Strangers' meat is the greatest treat.

陌生人的肉是最好的款待。

To hold a pen is to be at war.

握笔就是打仗。

Never floss with a stranger.

永远不要和陌生人用牙线。

Motion is tranquility.

运动是宁静。