In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

  • -- Catherine Drinker Bowen 包恩

写传记时,事实和虚构不能混为一谈。如果是的话,虚构的观点应该用红墨水打印,事实应该用黑墨水打印。

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The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis.

事实是它没有告诉我我们有一个更基本的问题去理解哪里出了问题,我们必须弄清楚哪里出了问题。这就是我所说的基本故障分析。

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

当我还是个孩子的时候,你不能从某些饮水机里喝水,这让人们很生气。水是一样的。

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

所有深刻的分心都会打开某些门。当你无法集中注意力时,你必须允许自己分心。

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

我只知道有些故事我想讲。