It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

很明显,我们不能向一个从未经历过激情的人解释激情,就像我们不能向盲人解释光一样。

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Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.

早期,一个故事的意义和基本原理似乎很明显,但是当我写它的时候,我意识到我太了解这个意义/基本原理了,这意味着读者也会知道它——所以事情必须加快速度。

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

任何人都可以是具体和明显的。这一直是简单的方法。并不是说不具体和不那么明显就很难做到;只是没有什么,绝对没有什么,是具体和明显的。

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

有趣的是,当乐队或年轻的音乐家问我:“那么,制作它需要什么?”“好吧,首先向我解释一下你所说的‘成功’是什么意思:你想成为一名摇滚明星,还是想以音乐为生?”

Any time they try to describe the tsunami to us, I am so touched by how high they look in the air, when they explain it with their hands-they go so high.

每当他们试图向我们描述海啸时,当他们用手解释时,我被他们在空中的高度所打动——他们的高度是如此之高。

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

真诚怎么会是友谊的条件呢?不惜一切代价追求真理是一种不惜一切代价的激情。

Yeah, I definitely want to find that right person and fall in love and have kids someday.

是啊,我真的很想找到那个对的人,然后坠入爱河,有一天有孩子。

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

我的激情从未跳出壁炉,点燃地毯。

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

当我们努力完成他人的工作后,我们总是会更加钦佩他。