Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

名利常使作家虚荣,但很少使他骄傲。

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It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'

是一位以为自己快死了的老朋友寄来的。无论如何,他说,生与死的问题不常发生,感谢上帝,所以不要把每件事都当作是生与死。更容易去。”

Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

我通常会在开胃小菜上放一些常温蔬菜之类的东西,这样主菜可能会很丰盛,但第一道菜的味道就很平衡了。

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

如果我们希望得到我们不可能拥有的东西,我们的行动和思考都是徒劳的,我们使生活成为一个比实际更伟大的梦想和阴影。

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

我们在这里的快乐都是虚空的荣耀,这虚假的世界不过是暂时的。