A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
记者
Journalist
It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
这是一种与生俱来的音乐——我可以拿起吉他弹点什么。这不是我有意识做的事情。
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
我们重读的书和读不完的书的清单比书本身的相对价值更能说明我们自己。
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
与作家有密切关系的人，除了认为他做得太过火之外，谁也不欣赏他的气质。
I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.
我看着一只狗，当我们的目光相遇时，我意识到狗和所有的动物都是我的家人。他们就像你和我一样。
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
陌生人，如果你路过遇见我，想和我说话，为什么不跟我说话呢?我为什么不跟你说话呢?
When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
当人们来到牙买加，我们不希望他们思考牙买加的问题。所以让他们来进入他们的天堂吧。
I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.
作为一名记者，我学到，如果你足够长时间、足够努力、足够仔细地观察，大多数事实都是可以发现的。
What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.
当然，我们必须努力成为的，是我们自己和全心全意。我们必须发现我们真正是什么，我们真正想要什么。
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
奖品将颁发给那些成功应对紧急情况的人。应对紧急情况的方法是尽我们所能做好每一项日常工作。
That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
这就是阅读的问题:你总是不得不重新拾起前一天让你停止阅读的东西。
These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
这些把我钉死在十字架上的批评家们一点也没有看出我的真诚。它们必须在大火中烧掉。我不能向他们学习。
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
每一个不太愚蠢或太自以为是而不去注意正在发生的事情的记者都知道，他所做的在道德上是站不住脚的。
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
男人对女人的爱——女人对男人的爱。这就是生命的本质，生命的意义，生命本身最好的部分。
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
生命-保存身体免于腐烂的精神腌黄瓜。
I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
我是个很糟糕的记者。糟透了。我会发明一切。如果我做一个采访，我对那个人应该说什么有一个先入之见，我会把我的话放进他的嘴里。
First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.
首先，通常是女性管理着这些更高的灵长类动物保护区，很少是男性。他们是白色的。他们来自优越的背景。他们的教育。
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
为了得到尊重，权威必须是受人尊敬的。
For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
对我来说，开怀大笑是世界上最美妙的声音之一。