To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

  • -- Paul Valery 保尔·瓦雷里

写规则的诗破坏了无数美好的可能性,但同时也暗示了许多遥远的、完全出乎意料的想法。

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

信念有创造的力量,也有毁灭的力量。人类有一种可怕的能力,可以从他们的生活中获取任何经验,并创造出一种意义,使他们丧失权力,或一种真正能拯救他们生命的意义。

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

没有什么比音乐更能把两代人分开了。当一个孩子八九岁的时候,他对自己的音乐产生了一种热情,这种热情甚至超过了他对拖延症和古怪衣服的热情。

I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

我认为,作为一个名人,你越暴露自己,你在工作中就越没有吸引力,因为如果你一直把自己暴露在公众面前,你就没有什么可隐瞒的了。

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

思想是颠覆性的、革命性的、破坏性的、可怕的,思想对特权、既定制度和舒适的习惯是无情的。思想是伟大的、敏捷的、自由的。

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

烧毁你们的城市,离开我们的农场,你们的城市就会像魔法一样重新出现;但是摧毁我们的农场,全国每个城市的街道上都会长出草来。

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.

当我写一个原创的故事时,我写的是我直接认识的人和我熟悉的情况。我不写关于十九世纪的故事。

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

不快乐的主要原因从来不是处境,而是你对它的想法。

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

写小说最好的方法是在自己背后写。