For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

  • -- George Ade 乔治·艾迪

对于客厅的使用,模糊的普遍性是一个救命稻草。

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I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

我不信任的想法。室内生活被高度高估了。我不喜欢那些模糊的东西…或者任何形式的写作中的归纳逻辑。我对那些言过其实的作家没有耐心。我所做的更好的事情都是出于本能。

When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.

当我写一首曲子的时候——多年来一直是这样——我总是在脑海中听到一些模糊的、精心编排的、充实的大乐队版本的歌曲,还有其他部分。

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.

我从来不会感到太孤独,因为这是一种疾病,你可能会坐在电视机前,拿着三袋饼干,而不是与世界交流。

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

每当两个好人就原则发生争执时,他们都是对的。