There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

  • -- James Nathan Miller 詹姆斯·内森·米勒

只要你知道该听什么,就不会有毫无价值的谈话。问题是谈话的生命。

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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

质疑阈限实例的本质和含义必然涉及到失败,即使只是在进入普遍的成功标准几乎不适用的空间的特定技术意义上。

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

只有通过接触和比较,才能清楚地、批判性地看到和理解各种文化元素的相对价值或价值的无价值。

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

你在公众的视野里,你只是希望人们不要在你吃饭或谈话的时候上来打扰你。

The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

我写作的方式是和自己大声对话。奇怪的是,我有点精神分裂,扮演了两个角色。

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

我的工作就是问问题——过去总是这样——并尽可能无情地问问题。并以某种谦卑的态度面对缺乏精确答案的情况。

It is worthless talking about what we have been spared by death. Death grins at that I am sure. Death of all creation knows the value of life.

谈论我们幸免于死亡是毫无意义的。我敢肯定死神一定会笑。所有创造物的死亡都知道生命的价值。

Make your experiment on a worthless subject.

在一个毫无价值的主题上做实验。

A fat man is worthless in the fields.

一个胖子在田里是一文不值的。