美国作家语录（三十一）

美国作家语录（三十一）

Kindness don't have no boundaries.

善良没有边界。

——凯瑟琳•斯多克特 《相助》

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

你无法靠逃避生活来寻求内心的平静。

——迈克尔•坎宁安 《时时刻刻》

A lot of people don't have families. . . . . But they still have homes.

很多人没有家庭，但他们仍然有家。

——伊丽莎白•斯特劳特 《奥丽芙•基特里奇》

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

如果他们能让你提出错误的问题，他们就不必担心答案了。

——托马斯•品钦《万有引力之虹》

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

你不可能一辈子小心翼翼地努力躲避灾难。那没用的。最终你只会错过该有的生活。

——金•爱德华兹 《不存在的女儿》

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

成真的梦想往往是那些连想都没想过的梦想。

——艾丽斯•西伯德 《可爱的骨头》

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

我曾经想要一个完美的结局。碰壁后我才了解有些诗是不押韵的，有些故事没有明确的开始，过程和结局。生活就是懵懵懂懂，临机应变，活在当下，随遇而安，不知道未来将发生什么。不确定的生活才是美妙的。

——吉尔达•拉德纳

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

信仰是在你看不见整段楼梯时就踏出第一步。

——马丁•路德•金

There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things

没有任何证据表明，我们来到人世间就必须快乐或者正常。事实上，我们的不开心和不正常，我们的焦虑和强迫症——这些人性中最不具有吸引力的特点，往往能引领我们发现许多有趣的事情。

——乔恩•龙森