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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It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space.

在我看来，考虑到这一点，一定存在某种普遍的计划，使围绕原子核的电子轨道运动起来，也使围绕彼此的星系运行得更慢、更宏伟，直到空间的边缘。

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I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

我不为自己感到骄傲，也不为自己感到兴奋，但我发现我就是我，像大多数其他人一样，我发出一些小信号;我告诉其他人从我的位置看每件事的样子。

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Music is by no means something I was like, 'I'm going to make a career out of this!' It's the only thing I know how to do, so it was more like, 'I hope to God I can make a career out of this!'

音乐绝不是我说的‘我要以此为职业!“这是我唯一会做的事情，所以我更像是在说，‘我希望上帝能让我以此为职业!’”

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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。

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A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

一个泡良族给了我一个很好的建议:在一段关系中最重要的三件事是诚实、信任和尊重，如果你没有这些，你就没有爱。

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The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

一千头羊在好草场上的毛，一年至少得五十马克，两千一百马克，依此类推，以千计。

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Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

现在不是所有的智力都可以是人工的，所以如果我们犯了一个错误，其后果不再仅仅局限于一个机构或一个国家的文化。

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The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

作家的职业可与品德高尚的女人相提并论。你写作首先是为了快乐，后来是为了别人的快乐，最后是为了钱。

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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

梯子的横档从来就不是用来搁脚的，而是用来托住一个人的脚，使他能把另一只脚放得高一点。

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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

现代艺术家……是工作和表达内心世界——换句话说——表达能量、运动和其他内在力量。

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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

我们成功的企业，需要我们所拥有的积极的品质，但我们在那些也可以利用我们的缺点。

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It's really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends. But it's really sad, when the best of friends become two strangers.

当两个陌生人成为最好的朋友，这真的很神奇。但是当最好的朋友变成两个陌生人的时候，真的很伤心。

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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

我袭击了一座城市——一座真正的城市——他们管它叫芝加哥……我迫切希望再也不要见到它。那里住着野蛮人。

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An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

一个艺术家不能对人们如何对待他们的艺术负责。观众讨厌放弃对艺术家的先入之见。

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Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

生活的战斗并不总是属于更强或更快的人。但最终获胜的人，是那些认为自己能行的人。

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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。

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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。

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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

如果船长的最高目标是保护他的船，他就会把它永远留在港口。

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Since everything is a reflection of our minds… Everything can be changed by our minds.

因为每件事都是我们思想的反映，所以每件事都可以被我们的思想所改变。

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Strangers can become best friends just as easy as best friends can become strangers.

陌生人可以成为最好的朋友，就像最好的朋友可以成为陌生人一样容易。

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Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'

税收改革意味着，‘不要向你征税，不要向我征税。向树后的那个家伙征税。”

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It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.

坠入爱河不需要时间，但你需要数年时间才能明白什么是爱。

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They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

他们意识到我又活过来了，尽管我在扮演一个垂死的老家伙。

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The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

全世界都在看着教堂外的牧师，想知道他们在教堂里的意思。

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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

每一种新观点，从一开始就只占少数。

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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

国王不是天生的:他们是由人为的幻觉造成的。

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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。

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To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

要抓住男孩子，你必须是他们的朋友。

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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

四十岁以上的人都是恶棍。

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Become a fixer, not just a fixture.

成为一个修复者，而不仅仅是一个固定物。

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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.

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