You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

  • -- Laurence J. Peter 劳伦斯·彼得

你总能告诉一个真正的朋友:当你出丑时,他并不觉得你做了一份长期的工作。

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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down ... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

你写作是因为你想以某种永久的形式总结你对活着的最基本的感觉,然后把它写下来……某种关于现在生活的感觉的永久声明,今天。

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

真正的内疚是对自己应尽的义务感到内疚。假内疚感是由于自己没有成为别人认为自己应该成为的人,或者没有成为别人认为自己应该成为的人而产生的内疚感。

The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.

那孩子现在指给她看一条又窄又崎岖的下坡路,这条路是把悬崖上的红土和石块凿成一种粗糙的台阶而下的。

I definitely know that I'm quirky. I know that I'm different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up.

我知道我很古怪。我知道我不一样。红头发绝对让我的成长与众不同。

God wants to use you but he doesn't need you. He just sees something bigger in you than you see in yourself.

上帝想要利用你,但他不需要你。他只是在你身上看到了比你自己更重要的东西。

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

珍惜那些告诉你残酷事实的朋友,他们十次都想对你说一个充满爱意的谎言。

Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.

不要为了别人喜欢你而改变。做你自己,对的人会喜欢真实的你。

Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

站起来,你坐得太久了,对与错之间总会有一道折痕。

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

真理永远是真理,不管缺乏理解、怀疑或无知。

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

如果你不像以前那样做事,总会有风险。

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

在说出一个秘密之前,人们常常能感觉到它在大气中的分量。

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

永远不要和傻瓜争论,旁观者可能看不出其中的区别。

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

我愿意认为我是一个认真的立法者,努力把事情做好。

If they love you, they will love everything you hate about yourself.

如果他们爱你,他们会爱你恨自己的一切。

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.'

如果剧本不好,我会告诉别人,‘这不好。’

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

不管你想讲什么故事,都要讲得恰到好处。

You got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.

你得逆来顺受才能得到真实的东西。

You can't always let people do their own thing.

你不能总是让别人做他们自己的事。

A fool and his words are soon parted.

蠢人易失言。

A friend to all is a friend to none.

对所有人都是朋友,对任何人都不是朋友。