You are always working on your worst book and your best book at the same time. The praise does not make you write better, and it shouldn't make you write worse, either.

  • -- Aleksandar Hemon 亚历山大·黑蒙

你总是同时在写你最差的书和最好的书。赞美不会让你写得更好,也不应该让你写得更差。

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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

赞美它就等于赞美我自己。对于整个工作内容…在过去的三、三十五年里,我的思绪几乎完全被我自己的沉思占据了。

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

这是一个老把戏了,上帝知道,但它每次都起作用。就在女性开始扩大她们在世界上的地位之际,科学研究为她们提供了令人信服的理由,让她们留在家里。

In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important — and often more profitable — than to be civil or creative or truly original.

在社会分裂的时代,粗俗成为一种生活方式。令人震惊变得比彬彬有礼、有创意或真正原创更重要,而且往往更有利可图。

I have always believed that chemistry can't be created between two people. You either have it or you don't. The script can only enhance it.

我一直认为两个人之间不可能产生化学反应。你要么有要么没有。脚本只能增强它。

You either are a good director or you're not.

你要么是个好导演,要么不是。

Their silence is praise enough.

他们的沉默是足够的赞美。