What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

  • -- Mos Def MOS定义

我从我喜欢的作家身上学到的是他们的经济能力——运用语言达到有效目的的能力。让某人阅读并看到它的能力,或者让某人用一张张文字来描绘整个视觉形象的能力——这很神奇。

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The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

享受生活的能力是一种技能,也是一种智慧。所以智力是很难评估的,它表现在很多不同的方面。我确实认为,懂得如何生活而不感到痛苦就是一个迹象。

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

文明的力量不是由它的战争能力来衡量的,而是由它防止战争的能力来衡量的。