I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

  • -- Cormac McCarthy 麦卡锡

我不知道我为什么开始写作。我不知道为什么有人这么做。也许他们感到无聊,或者在其他事情上失败了。

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I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

我很无聊,在酒吧里服务。因为我在那儿,顾客们都不愿谈论女人,她们有一半的话题都不谈女人,那就是:马,沉默;马,沉默。

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

沉浸在学习和探索的过程中,我不会变得太紧张。部分原因是为了不感到无聊。

And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

单纯的讲道,什么时候有什么益处呢?把这些东西放回原处。填补心灵的真空。

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

很多角色都是傻瓜,他们总是捉弄我,对我不好。

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

我想,在所有令人疲惫、徒劳、空虚的交易中,最糟糕的莫过于写作。

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

寻找没有特征的美,比任何迹象都深刻的东西。