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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

不要玩弄悖论。你为了烧灼别人而使用的那种腐蚀性物质，可能会烧灼到你自己的手指，使它们在质量上死去。

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I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'

我很会讲故事;我对人很有同情心。这对小说家来说非常有用。许多小说家都是势利小人。他们只是些卑鄙的人。我不是一个非常熟练的造型师，我也不想成为。我想让很多人读我的故事，然后说，‘那太酷了。’

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A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.

很多运动员都有明星的素质，但他们就是不能在镜头前表演。所以，不管你有多漂亮，不管你有什么样的风度，你仍然要成为一个有说服力的表演者，才能成为明星。

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Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.

嗯，说实话，我认为我比小说家更擅长写短篇小说。我发现小说非常难读，长时间、长时间、长时间、长时间地有意识地思考，而短篇小说几天就能毫无痛苦地脱口而出。

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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

没有什么比那些认为自己或共识选择认为自己精神不健康的人更清楚地定义了社区的生活质量。

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I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general.

我一直对雌雄同体的东西很感兴趣。男孩,女孩……我对雌雄同体很感兴趣。

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Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

来，让我们喝点茶，继续谈论快乐的事情。

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