Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

  • -- Robert Musil 罗伯特·穆齐尔

只有在最不寻常的情况下,判断一本书是好是坏才有用;因为这两者都是罕见的。通常两者都是。

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You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.

你不能听那些不懂音乐的人说些什么。任何时候发布的时候,我的评论都很差,一开始我很受伤。你的歌好像你的儿女。你不会想听到‘你的孩子很丑。但我知道唱片很好,会卖出去。

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.

有时候,你读了一本非常特别的书,读完之后,你想把它带在身边几个月,就为了靠近它。

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

我也是一个超级影迷,我亲眼目睹了逐字逐句地赞美这本书永远不会成为一部好电影。

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

一直保持明智是不明智的,就像永远参加葬礼一样。