The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

在创作一部作品时,人们发现的最后一件事是把什么放在首位。

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Our doorman discovered that his tasks could not be limited to just opening the door of the building - but that he, the doorman, was the one chosen, elected, singled out...to show everyone who lived there a wider door, until then either invisible or inaccessible: the door to their own lives.

我们的门卫发现,他的任务不可能局限于打开大楼的门,而是他,门卫,是被选中的,被选中的,被选中的……向每一个住在那里的人展示一扇更大的门,在那之前,这扇门要么是看不见的,要么是无法进入的:通往他们自己生活的门。

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

试着去理解你在你所生活的世界中扮演的角色。生活中有比你所知道的更多的事情,而这一切都发生在那里。发现你能扮演什么角色,然后去做。

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

我们的祖先总是想到可能发生的最坏的事情,这就是我们活着的原因。

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

世界上最难理解的是所得税。