Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

  • -- Frances Wright 弗朗西丝·莱特

这与真正道德的第一原则背道而驰。在这里,我们发现道德错误和道德正确的观念与有益行为之外的其他事物有关。其结果是,我们忽视了道德的真正基础,而代之以虚假的基础。

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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

我不知道是谁说小说家读别人的小说只是为了弄清楚他们是怎么写的。我相信这是真的。我们对暴露在书页表面的秘密并不满意:我们把书翻了个底朝天,寻找缝合线。

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

当一个孩子明白一个单词可以代表两件事时,他就会开始认真思考了。他们有一种既得利益,那就是找出一个词的意思,因为它是一个笑话的妙语。

It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

让人们意识到男人和男孩都在挣扎,这是件好事,至少他们中的许多人都在挣扎。但为什么说男人完了呢?这太苛刻了,太笼统了,而且碰巧不是真的。

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

我的角色都是虚构的。有时候我从真实的人那里得到一些想法,但是我的角色总是只存在于我的脑海中。

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

没有人比那些不承认错误的人更容易犯错。

Action is the foundational key to all success.

行动是一切成功的基础。

I feel like everything i say comes out wrong.

我觉得我说的每句话都是错的。

Hard upon hard never made a good wall.

一堵好墙是靠不断的努力才成的。