The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

  • -- Toni Morrison 托尼·莫里森

作家想象非自我的能力,熟悉陌生事物和迷惑熟悉事物的能力,是对他们力量的考验。

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The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

通过匹配人们的技能、兴趣和能力,使大多数人获得最大成功的系统是自由企业。相比之下,再分配只是简单地把钱分散开来。更糟糕的是,它削弱了通过扭曲经济激励机制获得成功的能力。

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

你总是觉得摇滚评论家是沮丧的音乐家。我羡慕音乐家们有能力将他们的艺术活在当下,并与观众分享。