庫爾特·馮內(nèi)古特
美國黑色幽默文學(xué)的代表人物之一
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
一個(gè)理智的人在一個(gè)瘋狂的社會(huì)里必須顯得瘋狂。
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
沒有理由說善不能像惡一樣經(jīng)常勝利。任何事物的勝利都是組織的問題。
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
我告訴你，我們在地球上就是為了閑逛，別讓任何人告訴你不同的。
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
真正的恐怖是某天早上醒來，發(fā)現(xiàn)你的高中同學(xué)在管理國家。
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
我們必須不斷地跳下懸崖，并在下落的過程中長出翅膀。
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
笑和哭都是對挫折和疲憊的反應(yīng)。我自己更喜歡笑，因?yàn)橹笮枰謇淼纳佟?/div>
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
我懇請你注意到你快樂的時(shí)候，然后在某個(gè)時(shí)刻大聲或小聲或心里想，“如果這都不算好，我不知道什么才算?！?/div>
So it goes.
就這樣吧。
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
我們假裝是什么，我們就是什么，所以我們必須小心我們假裝是什么。