"All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are."
我学校里其他孩子都很蠢。虽然我不应该叫他们蠢,即使他们确实如此。
译文:贫穷时即使身处繁华的闹市,都没有人关心问候,富贵时即使住在深山老林都会有亲戚登门。赏析:要想赢得别人的尊重,我们应该努力奋斗,改变自己的窘境。当我们变得强大时,身边的人自然不敢小看我们。
"A good story should make you laugh and cry in equal measure."
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.