Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

  • -- Erica Jong 艾瑞卡·琼

事实上,朋友喜欢痛苦。有时候,尤其当我们太幸运、太成功或太漂亮时,我们的不幸是唯一能让我们赢得朋友喜爱的东西。

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I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

我认为在这两种情况下,作为一个演员,重要的是要学习,尽管我小时候很成功,重要的是要理解在一个大池塘里做一条小鱼意味着什么。

Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending.

幸福和痛苦不取决于你是高是低——它们不取决于这些,而是取决于你的方向。

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

具有讽刺意味的是,在今天的市场上,成功的非虚构作品必须令人难以置信,而成功的小说必须可信。

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

世界上有如此多的苦难,是由于企图一步登天。

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

如果你想成功,你必须建立个人联系。

I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.

除了我的丈夫,我和我所有的前女友还是朋友。

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.

我有一种强烈的愿望,想在某件事上取得成功。

A drap and a bite's but a sma' requite.

吃一堑,长一堑,长一剑。