I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?

  • -- Joyce Maynard 乔伊斯·梅纳德

我不知道那些批评我讲这个故事的人真正反对的是什么:是因为我敢于讲这个故事吗?或者这个故事并不是他们想听的?

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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

一个事实从来没有和一个奇迹结合在一起。真理蔑视奇迹的帮助。一个事实将与宇宙中的其他所有事实相吻合,这就是你如何辨别它是否是一个事实的方法。谎言只适用于另一个谎言。

Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

因为我发现自己在没有视觉辅助工具的情况下讲述了他的家庭故事,而我最终通过拍摄他们来利用视觉辅助工具。但我非常清楚我要做什么。

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

当我还是个孩子的时候,你不能从某些饮水机里喝水,这让人们很生气。水是一样的。

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

广告通常在漫不经心的公众中产生神奇的效果,就其效果而言。