I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

  • -- Robert Sheckley 罗伯特·谢克里

我深受我心目中的英雄蒙田的影响,他认为一个人的真正任务是尽可能诚实地描述自己。

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I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

我过去常常想,要是能到行星上去看看该有多好。当然,我没有料到在我有生之年会发生什么。我知道它总有一天会发生,但它来得比我最初想的要快。

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

所有的现象在某种意义上都是真实的,在某种意义上都是不真实的,在某种意义上都是无意义的,在某种意义上都是真实而无意义的,在某种意义上都是不真实而无意义的,在某种意义上都是真实而不真实而无意义的。

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

很明显,我们感官的每一个直接的对象,只要我们还意识到这个对象,在这些术语的主要意义上,都是存在的,并且是真实的。

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

我是一个健康的年轻人,在被诊断出患有肾病之前,我认为自己是不可战胜的。

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

诚实的穷人有时会忘记贫穷。诚实的富人永远不会忘记这一点。

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

被引用总比诚实好。