Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

  • -- Robert Hall 霍尔

直呼其名——一杯白兰地加水!这是当前名称,但不是合适的名称;要求一杯液体火和蒸馏诅咒。

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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

容器里的水闪闪发光;海里的水是黑的。小真理有清晰的文字;伟大的真理有伟大的沉默。

I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time - I cram it into wherever it will fit.

我在医院里度过安静的电话之夜,在飞机上,在我的帆船上,当我有一点时间的时候——我把它塞进任何合适的地方。

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

如果你摔断了脖子,如果你没有东西吃,如果你的房子着火了,那么你就有麻烦了。其他一切都不方便。

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

如果一只猫做了什么,我们称之为本能;如果我们出于同样的原因做同样的事情,我们称之为智慧。

To piss across water is to piss across your reflection.

尿过水就是尿过你的倒影。

Fire burns brighter in the darkness.

火在黑暗中烧得更旺。