When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do - well, that's memoirs.

  • -- Will Rogers 罗杰斯

当你放下你本应该做的好事,把你做过的坏事抛诸脑后——好吧,这就是回忆录。

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It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.

只有通过虚构和想象的维度,我们才能了解个人体验的真实情况。任何其他方法都必然是通用的和抽象的。

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

还有一件事要记住:作家总是在出卖别人。