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“Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.”
Никогда не сдавайся - никогда, никогда, никогда, никогда, ни в чем большом или маленьком, большом или мелком, никогда не поддавайся, кроме убеждений чести и здравом смысле.

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
В великих и щедрых умах любопытство - первая страсть и последняя.

“Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken.”
Будь собой, остальные роли заняты.

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
Пиши при закрытой двери, переписывай при открытой.

“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”

“Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”

“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
Могут ли расстояния по-настоящему отдалить тебя от друзей... Если ты хочешь быть с тем, кого любишь, разве ты уже не с ним?

“Religion is like a pair of shoes….. Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”
Религия подобна паре туфель ... Найди ту, которая подходит тебе, но не заставляй меня носить твои туфли.

“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”
Но, несомненно, за всё, что любишь, нужно платить определенную цену

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

“Nobody likes a clown at midnight”
Никто не любит клоунов в полночь.

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
Невозможное не могло произойти, поэтому невозможное должно быть возможным, несмотря на внешность.

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”

“Life's too short to pretend and play games like that. I want to spend my time hanging out with people who make me feel good about myself. People who make me happy.”

“Think globally, act locally.”

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
Всякая эмоция непроизвольна, если она искренна.

“He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.”
Всегда опирайтесь на мысль о том, что ваше собственное решение добиться успеха намного важнее всего другого.

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”

“Number rules the universe.”
Числа руководят Вселенной.

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Писать на самом деле очень просто. Ты просто садишься перед пишущей машинкой и начинаешь истекать кровью.

“Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
Жизнь не является системой поддержки для искусства. Это наоборот.

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
За каждой изысканной вещью существовало что-то трагическое.

“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
Прощение — это аромат, который фиалка дарит тому, кто её растоптал.

“There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.”
Для разума нет никаких препятствий, кроме тех, которые мы признаём

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
Небеса находятся под нашими ногами, а также над нашими головами.

“Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.”

“There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”
Нет ни одной вещи, которая была бы правдой. Это всё правда.

“Through the unknown, we'll find the new.”
Через неизвестное мы находим новое.

“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”
Доверие невинных - самый полезный инструмент лжеца.

“Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.”

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
Мы наслаждаемся любовью лишь мгновенье, тогда как страдаем от неё всю жизнь.

“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
Давайте скажу прямо? Если у вас нет времени на чтение, то нет времени (и навыков) для письма. Все просто.

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
Ваше дело - расти, и не важно, насколько высок ростом был ваш дедушка.

“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
Есть что-то чарующее в запретном; и это делает его несказанно желанным.

“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
И мозгов у нее хватит на двоих, а именно столько и понадобится девушке, которая выйдет за тебя замуж.

“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”

“Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.”

“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”
Там могут быть более красивые времена, но именно это — наше.

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
Любовь к книгам - один из самых изысканных даров богов.

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
Сердце разобьется, но разбитым будет жить

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

“The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”
Язык дружбы — не слова, а смыслы.

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
Душа окрашивается цветом своих мыслей.

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
Кроме чувств, ничто не способно излечить душу, равно как ничто, кроме души, не способно излечить чувства.

“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
Измеряй в дюймах то, что пишут о тебе.

“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.”

“Why I'm Not Where You Are”

“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”

“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
Иногда, для того чтобы отпустить, нужно куда больше силы, чем чтобы сохранить или удержать.

“It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.”

“When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”
Когда вы не можете вернуться назад, вам нужно беспокоиться только о наилучшем пути движения вперёд.

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

“True friends stab you in the front”
Настоящие друзья наносят удар в лоб.

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”

“Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.”
Любовь слепа. Дружба закрывает ей глаза.

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
Все вещи - это субъект интерпретации. Какое бы толкование ни возобладало в данный момент, оно зависит от силы, а не от правды.

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
Каждый день новый день. Лучше быть счастливым. Но я бы предпочел быть точным. Тогда, когда приходит удача, вы готовы.

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
Такт - это способность сказать кому-то идти в ад так, чтобы он с нетерпением ждал поездки.

“To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

“Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming.”
Возможности в бизнесе - как автобус: уехал один - придёт другой.

“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”
Трава - это исцеление нации, алкоголь - это разрушение.

“Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.”

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
Желание быть кем-то другим - пустая трата того, кем ты являешься.

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”

“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”
Принимайте то, что предлагает вам жизнь, и старайтесь пить из каждого бокала. Все вина нужно пробовать; некоторые следует пить только маленькими глотками, а с другими выпивайте всю бутылку.

“Who, being loved, is poor?”
Кто, будучи любимым, беден?

“I don't have to have faith, I have experience.”

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

“Once you label me you negate me.”

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
Нет повести печальнее на свете, чем повесть о Ромео и Джульетте.

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
У тебя есть свой путь. У меня есть свой путь. Что касается правильного пути, верного пути и единственного пути, то его не существует.

“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”

“The beginning is always today.”

“So much technology, so little talent.”

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few.”

“I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers… this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.”

“… the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.”

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Вам не нужно сжигать книги, чтобы уничтожить культуру. Просто сделайте так, чтобы люди перестали их читать.

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
Когда люди говорят, слушай полностью. Большинство людей никогда не слушают.

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

“When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.”

“Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac”

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
Одиночество. Да, это ключевое слово, самое ужасное слово в английском языке. "Убийство" - в подмётки не годится, а "Ад" - всего лишь слабый синоним.

“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
Я, как всегда, удивился тому, как просто было уйти, и как приятно было это чувство. Мир внезапно наполнился возможностями. - Джон Кракауэр Из документального романа "В диких условиях" (1996 г.)

“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
Ложь может путешествовать по всему миру, в то время как правда надевает туфли.