We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

  • -- Frank Howard Clark 弗兰克·霍华德·克拉克

我们把更多的精力放在帮助人们进入老年,而不是帮助他们享受老年生活。

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The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

我最欣赏的评论来自普通读者,他们在我的书中遇到了一些压力,他们认为这本书帮助他们度过了一段艰难的时光。这在四十年里发生过几次。

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

但在过去,视觉艺术家通常分为两类:一类是用相机创作图像的人,另一类是用画笔或其他工具把东西涂到其他东西上的人。

I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.

我喜欢描绘年轻人的生活,一方面,如果你有女孩或年轻人的角色,你必须绝对有年轻人来填补他们——这是现在普遍承认的。

I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way.

我喜欢它的方方面面,我对任何媒介都没有偏好。我认为他们每个人都有自己的吸引力,我希望他们每个人都能以某种方式告诉对方。

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

当然,生活是奇怪的,它变得越奇怪,就越有趣。唯一的方法就是给自己做些爆米花,然后享受这个节目。

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

年老时的忠告是愚蠢的;因为,有什么比我们越接近旅程的终点,就为道路增加给养更荒唐的事呢?

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

最平凡的文字,一旦投入使用,就会突然获得光辉。这就是你的形象必须闪耀的光辉。

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

对我们的朋友来说,重要的是要相信我们对他们是毫无保留的坦诚,而对友谊来说,重要的是我们不是。

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

我只是对一些事情充满激情,尤其是帮助艺术家起步。

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

有些画家把太阳画成黄斑,有些画家把黄斑画成太阳。

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

一切书籍都可以分为二类,即:一时之书和永久之书。

Telling someone to chill out when they're upset usually just makes them more upset.

让某人在难过的时候冷静下来通常只会让他们更难过。

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

把事情做好的方法是不去在意是谁做的。

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

知足不在于多添燃料,而在于少取火。

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

我不重写。我把所有的书页都堆在打字机旁边。

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

作为一个小商人,你没有比真相更大的影响力。

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

我想与其说我介意变老,不如说我介意变胖变老。

I live my life in widening circles. That reach out across the world.

我的生活圈子越来越大。这将影响到全世界。

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

不要为十全十美担心——你永远也做不到十全十美。