Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

  • -- George Steiner 斯坦纳

语言只能有意义地处理现实中一个特殊的、受限制的部分。剩下的,大概是更大的部分,是沉默。

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The appearance of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

事物的外表会随着情绪的变化而变化,因此我们在其中看到了魔力和美,而魔力和美真正存在于我们自己之中。

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

我以为做真人秀是我一生中最大的成功,或者是最大的错误。

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

当英语挡住我的路时,我就走过去。

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

语言比绘画更接近电影。