Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

远离那些试图贬低你抱负的人。小人物总是这样做,但真正伟大的人会让你觉得你也可以变得伟大。

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Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

很多时候,伟大的决定都是在完全由男性组成的身体中产生和形成的,或者完全由男性主导,以至于女性所能提供的任何特殊价值都被束之高阁。

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

你能从普通人那里听到最好的故事。对我来说,那种即时性的感觉比许多文采十足、文采十足的故事更真实。当我读小说时,我想要那种即时性。

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me.

女人是我唯一害怕的人,我从没想过她们会伤害我。

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

我没有唐氏综合症;我只是有点小毛病。

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

伟大的人有伟大的自我;也许这就是他们伟大的地方。

I don't really want to get married to get married pretend.

我并不是真的想结婚就假装结婚。