Never try and teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

  • -- Robert A. Heinlein 罗伯特·海因莱因

不要试图教猪唱歌。它既浪费你的时间又惹怒了猪。

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It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

这一切都是背信弃义的祝福,而我的朋友们是那些坚守信仰的人,他们阅读我的作品,敦促我把它提交给出版商(把它寄给我——他们不愿听到一个“不”的回答。

Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

一旦你掌控了你的工作,你的房子,你的孩子,端上桌的食物,做所有这些,所有的时间,让别人来掌控一段时间可能会很好。

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

为什么两种颜色,一种放在另一种旁边,唱歌?有人能解释一下吗?不。就像一个人永远学不会画画一样。

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

我认为重要的是,我们不必总是高昂着头说一切都很好。

Evil wastes itself.

邪恶的废物本身。