Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

你是否只从那些仰慕你、温柔待你、支持你的人身上吸取了教训?那些与你争竞,与你争竞的,岂不是给你大教训吗?

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I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people.

当我遇到超现实主义者和达达主义者时,我还是个小男孩。我钦佩他们,这就是他们教给我的:要钦佩。赞赏是非常重要的。不能欣赏别人的人失去了灵魂的重要部分。我的灵魂在很小的时候就通过与受人尊敬的人的接触而发展起来。

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

但我也认为所有伟大的文学故事都是关于孤独的。有时候是因为心碎,有时候是因为不公,有时候是因为命运。有无数种方法可以检验它。

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

渴望被他的同伴们观察、考虑、尊重、赞扬、喜爱和钦佩,这是人类心灵中发现的最早也是最敏锐的性情之一。

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

从上帝开始——学习的第一步是向上帝鞠躬;只有傻瓜才对这种智慧和学问嗤之以鼻。

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

与作家有密切关系的人,除了认为他做得太过火之外,谁也不欣赏他的气质。

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

我们总是能够唱得很好,并很好地融合在一起;这是我们的礼物。但除此之外,我们真的是两个不同的人。

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

不要第一个尝试新事物的人,也不要最后一个抛弃旧事物的人。

I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.

我天生就很瘦,戴着牙套,所以我不是一个可爱的模特。

Modern literature spurns moralizing in favor of demoralizing.

现代文学摒弃道德说教而倾向于道德败坏。

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

原子时代将会继续存在——但我们会吗?

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

学习本身就是极大的奖赏。