When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

  • -- Isak Dinesen 伊萨克·迪内森

当你有一项伟大而艰巨的任务时,有些事情几乎是不可能的,如果你一次只做一点,每天都做一点,工作就会突然结束。

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Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time---or never.

有时你会公开搬家,有时会私下搬家。有时安静,有时高声。有时,积极的政策最好的推进方式是在合适的时间之前什么都不做——或者永远不做。

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

我应该对香烟做点什么;我完全同意这对你的健康有害,但你知道适度饮酒是非常有益的,而且在某些时候是绝对必要的。

That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.

这就是我所做的很棒的地方,从一份工作换到另一份工作。

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.

我们的承诺是根据我们的希望,我们的行动是根据我们的恐惧。

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

小说写作很棒。你几乎可以编造任何东西。

Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

哪里有钥匙,哪里就有希望。