I have known many good people who did not believe in God. But I have never known a human being who was good who did not believe in people. [language slightly modified]

  • -- John Lovejoy Elliott 约翰·洛夫乔伊·埃利奥特

我认识许多不信上帝的好人。但我从未见过一个好人不相信人。(语言稍微修改)

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That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of sentimental identification. We watch it because we like these people and we miss them when they don't show up. They become part of the stories we tell ourselves.

这就是“社区”的问题所在——尽管有着高概念的聪明才智,但归根结底还是粗俗的人文主义,一种最愚蠢的情感认同。我们看它是因为我们喜欢这些人,当他们不出现时,我们会想念他们。它们成为我们告诉自己的故事的一部分。

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

很少有国家穷到只有一个上帝。神是如此容易造出来的,原料成本又如此之低,以致神的市场一般都相当饱和,天堂里挤满了这些幽灵。

If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

如果我在我的客厅里做一件作品,如果我练习它——我有磁带来证明这一点——它不会比在观众面前做同样的作品好。

I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

我不是一个运动员。你怎么能不相信不存在的东西呢?这对我来说太复杂了。

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.

坏消息是时间过得真快。好消息是你是飞行员。

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

我总是喜欢狗,只要它不是倒着拼写的。