我不喜欢正经的小说。在正经小说里,人们会说这样的话:“我的血管里流淌着铁、银和普通的泥土。我无法像那些不依赖刺激的人那样握紧拳头。”这是什么意思?我不知道。父亲也不知道。写这些书的人也不知道。
I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.
"No hay mayor aventura que adentrarse en las páginas de un libro."
Get rich or die tryin'.
现在是过去卷起准备行动,过去是现在展开以便理解。
The success of an enterprise is not accidental, but inevitable.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.
雄心壮志是失败最后的避难所。