Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.

  • -- Robert Caro 罗伯特·卡洛

我每次上班都穿夹克打领带,因为我天生就很懒,我的书要花很长时间才能完成,我的出版商也不烦我,所以很容易让自己误以为自己比实际工作更努力。

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The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

凉风吹在我脸上,我突然觉得自己好像摆脱了呆滞。在我面前有一条长长的灰色的线,中间有一个黑色的标记。鸟儿在唱歌。这是春天。

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'

你只能逃避责任这么久。最终,法律的出台起到了催化剂的作用,最终说,‘你们暂停了判决,没关系,因为我们没有。’

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

逻辑的结果是愚人的稻草人和智者的灯塔。

The fool speaks, the wise man listens.

愚者说,智者听。