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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  • -- Abraham Lincoln 亚伯拉罕·林肯

没有人有足够的记忆力成为一个成功的说谎者。

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And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

我意识到，当我带着这些波纹金属和链环参加会议时，人们会看着我，就像我刚从火星着陆一样。但我无能为力。这是我对人民和时间的回应。

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Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

任何声称擅长说谎的人显然不擅长说谎。因此，作为一名作家，我无法评论作家是否特别善于说谎，因为我所说的一切实际上意味着完全相反的情况。

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I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

我可以做喜剧，所以人们想让我做，但喜剧的另一面是抑郁。深深的抑郁是喜剧的另一面。选角经纪人没有意识到这一点，但为了搞笑，你必须有另一面。

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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

对于诗人来说，平庸现在和从前一样，是危险的，通常是致命的;但是，即使是成功的散文作家，那些理智地超越它的人也是非常罕见的例外。

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And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.

我告诉你们，这就是我没有和媒体建立友谊的原因之一，也许我本可以和媒体建立友谊。但是我必须做我必须做的来让自己成功。

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This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

这种不寻常的、非常成功的物种花了大量的时间研究他的更高的动机，而同样多的时间忽略了他的基本动机。

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Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

啊，时间是多么宝贵啊，眼看着它溜走，而我却没有做什么有意义的事，我是多么痛苦啊!

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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

我们最勇敢和最好的教训不是从成功中吸取的，而是从不幸中吸取的。

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