If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

  • -- Russell Hoban 罗素·霍本

如果过去教不了现在,父亲也教不了儿子,那么历史就不必费心继续下去了,世界已经浪费了大量的时间。

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It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.

它只是给你一种感觉,什么时候你需要对话,什么时候不需要,如果你的照片在讲故事,你不需要所有这些对话。

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

我来告诉你是怎么回事。你问我现在几点,我就告诉你怎么做一个钟。

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.

有时候男人需要哭泣。一些曲棍球运动员认为他们太坚强而不能哭。

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

谢谢你寄给我一份你的书,我马上就看。