写作就是面对内外的混乱,在无序中找到秩序。
"To write is to confront the chaos within and without, to find order in the disorder."
As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores. We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially "Days of our Lives." My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club, a group of Airstream trailer owners who travel together around the U.S. and Canada. And every few summers, we'd join the caravan. We'd hitch up the Airstream trailer to my grandfather's car, and off we'd go, in a line with 300 other Airstream adventurers. I loved and worshipped my grandparents and I really looked forward to these trips. On one particular trip, I was about 10 years old. I was rolling around in the big bench seat in the back of the car. My grandfather was driving. And my grandmother had the passenger seat. She smoked throughout these trips, and I hated the smell.
译文:奉承的话顺从了人的内心容易让人高兴,直率的话不能接受让人容易发怒。赏析:奉承的话虽然好听,但能让人迷失自我,直率的话虽然逆耳,但能让人清醒。我们少听阿谀的谗言,多听直率的忠言。
孔子说季氏:“他用天子的舞蹈阵容在自己的庭院中舞蹈,这样的事可以容忍,什么事不能容忍?”
"Sometimes the hardest stories to write are the ones closest to your heart."