As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

  • -- H. L. Mencken 门肯

随着动脉变硬,心脏变软。

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At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

在出生时,我们就像软骨——柔软、有弹性的组织。通过软骨变成硬骨的自然过程,一个天真的孩子的柔软、柔嫩的心也会因为她出生的环境而变得坚硬。

Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.

为什么女人不能和睦相处?因为我们害怕。我们害怕脆弱。我们害怕软弱。我们害怕受伤。但最重要的是,我们害怕自己的力量。所以我们变得控制欲强,好斗,恶毒。

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

当然,小说的工作就是真实地说出真相。这是一个悖论,是任何一种叙事的核心。

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

心总是先看见,头脑才看得见。