The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

  • -- F. Scott Fitzgerald F.斯科特·菲茨杰拉德

对一流智力的测试是同时在头脑中持有两种相反观点的能力,同时仍能发挥作用。

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I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

我不认为录音应该听起来比艺术家好得多,我认为这是不诚实的。例如,我不是一个伟大的歌手,但如果我花足够的时间调整我的声音,我可以听起来像一个。但是我没有,你听到的和我唱的差不多。

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

老实说,在那个时候,我从来没有把自己看作一个作家……我只是一个惊慌失措的妈妈,为了家里的灯还亮着,我试图参加一个短篇小说比赛来赢得奖金。

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

我想,没有什么,甚至没有犯罪,比这种没完没了的工作更反对诗歌,更反对哲学,更反对生活本身了。

If you ask god to help you, it means you trust his ability, if he doesn't help you yet, it means he trusts yours.

如果你请求上帝帮助你,这意味着你相信他的能力,如果他还没有帮助你,这意味着他相信你的能力。

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

纪律是炼火,有才能才有能力。