约瑟夫•海勒语录

约瑟夫•海勒语录

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

有些人生来平庸，有些人经过努力做到了平庸，还有些人则被迫平庸。

——约瑟夫•海勒

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

成功和失败都令人难以忍受。伴随着成功而来的是毒品、离婚、通奸、欺凌、旅行、冥想、药物治疗、抑郁症、神经病和自杀。伴随着失败而来的则是失败。

——约瑟夫•海勒

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

从长远来看，失败是唯一可以预见的事情。其他的一切都是偶然的。

——约瑟夫•海勒

It was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything. 

对于从不质疑任何事情的人，你没有办法也没有必要教育他们。

——约瑟夫•海勒《第二十二条军规》

Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.

任何值得为之献身的东西当然也值得为之活下去。

——约瑟夫•海勒《第二十二条军规》

I know at last what I want to be when I grow up. When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

我终于知道我长大后想成为什么样的人了。我长大后想做一个小男孩。

——约瑟夫•海勒 《出事了》