Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

  • -- William Penn 威廉·佩恩

避免受欢迎;它有许多陷阱,但没有真正的好处。

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My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

我的猜测是,人们看着我,投射出他们自己的价值观——家庭的重要性,自我是健康的,但不是最重要的。我不知道。我无法解释我的受欢迎程度。

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

很少有情况下,仅仅是受欢迎程度就应该被视为一种适当的优点测试;但我认为,写歌是少数几个例子之一。

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

我不仅避免提到塞林格,我拒绝去想他。我没有重读他给我的信。这段经历太痛苦了。

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

避免极端情况:储蓄和支出要适度;一个平稳而轻松的步态会赢得一个轻松的结局。