We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

-- Barbara Jordan 芭芭拉·乔丹

我们是一个左右为难的民族。我们是一个追求未来的民族。我们是一个寻求民族共同体的民族。

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There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.

有成千上万的人过着平静、绝望的生活，他们长时间、辛苦地做着自己讨厌的工作，为的是能买到自己不需要的东西，给自己不喜欢的人留下深刻印象。

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

我成了自己版本的乐观主义者。如果我不能通过一扇门，我会通过另一扇门——或者我要做一扇门。无论现在多么黑暗，可怕的事情总会发生。

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I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

我喜欢用两到三种不同的方式展现自己，因为我从来没有想过要满足于已有的成就，成为人们所期待的那种人。

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Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

好的小说是由不害怕的人写的。

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