Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

写作的习惯和生活中的习惯一样,只有在它们不再有利时被打破,才会有用。

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While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.

尽管反驳指责并让你的论点广为流传是有用的,但你必须明白,只要人们的情绪倾向于反对你,论点和证据就不会对他们产生什么影响。

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

我认为看喜剧会让你养成坏习惯……这就像走钢丝,要忠于角色,忠于讽刺,让讽刺发生。

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

与其说我们的生活和习惯取决于我们的观点,不如说我们的生活和习惯取决于我们的观点。

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

有害的真相胜于有用的谎言。