Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

  • -- C. S. Lewis C.S.刘易斯

即使在文学和艺术领域,也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反,如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次),十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。

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I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

我不认为我的书是传记。我从来没有兴趣写一本书,只是为了写一个伟人的生活。我对此毫无兴趣。我的兴趣在于权力。权力是如何工作的。

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

每一天,每一支生日蜡烛我吹灭,每一分钱我扔在我的肩膀上许愿井,每一次我的女儿说,“让我们对着星星许愿”,我都希望一件事:智慧。

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

没有什么比写下自己的论点更能使思维过程变得敏锐的了。在口头讨论中被忽视的弱点在书面讨论中就会变得非常明显。

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

如果我觉得自己没有影响比赛,没有进球,没有进球,那我就会放弃。

Know that true change is demonstrated only by your actions around everyone, not just certain people.

要知道,真正的改变只会通过你在每个人身边的行动来体现,而不仅仅是某些人。

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里,也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

没有绝望的情况;只有男人对他们感到绝望。

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

男人可以从一个情妇那里得到许多东西,而从一个妻子那里却得不到。

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

如果你想从零开始做一个苹果派,你必须首先创造宇宙。

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

如果你不改变,现实最终会迫使你改变。

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

人类的救赎掌握在那些创造力失调的人手中。

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

阅读本身不是目的,而是达到目的的手段。

Writing that's not working for a living.

写作不是为了谋生。

I love comic books and I love anime.

我喜欢漫画书和动画。