Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

  • -- Dylan Thomas 狄兰·托马斯

无论我拥有什么才能,都可能突然减少或增加。我可以轻松地变成一个普通的傻瓜。我现在可能就是其中之一。但这并不会破坏一个人的虚荣心。

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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

没有什么比在别人身上表现出更大的虚荣心更能抚慰我们的虚荣心了;事实上,它使我们对自己的谦虚感到骄傲。

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

每个人都有一个杀手故事。讲这个故事不需要天赋,只需要经验。

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

如果对男人来说是正确的,对女人来说是错误的,上帝就不会给我们同样的天赋。

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

奉承是一种坏钱,我们的虚荣心给了我们钱。