I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。

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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

当我发现故事书是由人写的,书并不是自然奇观,而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候,我感到既震惊又失望。

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

写歌词最难的一件事就是让歌词以一种你不知道有作者在场的方式出现在音乐中。

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

我考虑上电影学校;我修了一门电影课程,对电影制作和电影写作都很感兴趣。

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

一个母亲花二十年的时间把她的孩子培养成一个男人,而另一个女人只用二十分钟就把他变成一个傻瓜。

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

你可以太有钱,也可以太瘦,但你永远不可能读得太好或对世界太好奇。

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

当你没有必要读的时候,你所读的决定了当你没有办法的时候,你会成为什么样的人。

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

神……他的唯一定义就是他超出了人类的想象能力。

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

爱不是选择性的,欲望是选择性的。爱情里没有陌生人。

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

书的真正目的是使人的思想陷入自己的思考。

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

成功——保持清醒的头脑和沉睡的欲望。