My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

  • -- Tom Stoppard 汤姆·斯托帕德

我的作品总是试图把真和美结合起来;但当我不得不选择其中之一时,我通常选择美丽的。

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It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.

不再是白人对黑人,而是富人对穷人。除非黑人中产阶级团结起来促进黑人下层阶级的利益,否则他们之间的紧张关系是不可避免的。我们,黑人中产阶级所要做的,就是想出一个策略来避免这种情况。

Over the years I've tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I've tried to pursue them, and, I've had a certain sense of 'stickability,' hanging in there, and I suppose that's me.

多年来,我一直在努力弄清生活中哪些事情是重要的,哪些事情是重要的,我一直在努力追求它们,我有一种“粘性”,坚持下去,我想这就是我。

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

利益不能把国家联系在一起;它有时会把它们分开。但是同情和理解确实使他们团结起来。

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

我从来没有想过我是正常的,从来没有想过我是正常的。