When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

当懦弱变得可敬时,它的追随者无论来自弱者还是强者都是数不胜数的;它很容易成为一种时尚。

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I've done a lot of interviews of the last few years, and I've actually started a list of questions that it would be fun to ask an author, but no respectable interviewer would ever ask. Since I'm not respectable, I'm going to start doing interviews with some authors I know, just for fun.

在过去的几年里,我做过很多采访,实际上,我已经开始了一系列的问题,问一个作家会很有趣,但没有一个可敬的采访者会问这些问题。由于我不受人尊敬,我打算开始采访一些我认识的作家,只是为了好玩。

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

我认为家庭是世界上最荒唐、最不体面的事情发生的地方。

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

恐惧与懦弱无关。一个人只有在他的恐惧使他放弃时,他才会胆怯。

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

谎言是懦弱,真理是勇气。