Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

许多人以为他是在买快乐,其实他是在把自己卖给快乐。

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

就我们的政治利益而言,我们比世界上任何其他民族都更彻底地是一个开明的民族。我们当中的每一个人都读书,在他所处的环境中,读书是如此的容易,以致于有空闲的时间来讨论进步和获取信息。

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.

这个世界每天都侵入我的大脑。因为我的脑子里满是各种各样的东西,我似乎无法将它们拒之门外,所以我的工作中也必须有这些东西。

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

当你给某些政治人物打电话,请他们评论时,他们会思考;你在做一些你不应该做的事情。

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

扮演我妹妹是一件很开心的事,因为我这辈子一直指责她的一切,现在我都能在她眼前重现了。

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

为什么不立刻抓住快乐,有多少时候快乐会被准备,愚蠢的准备毁掉。

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

我欣赏某一类人线性而果断的思维方式,对我的曲线美无限的思虑。

I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is.

我试着每天都有规律地从圣经中汲取知识,不管时间有多晚。

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

只有糟糕的艺术家才会认为自己有好主意。一个好的艺术家不需要任何东西。