Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

  • -- Saul Bellow 索尔·贝娄

与你能找到的最高贵的人交往;读最好的书;与有权势者同住;但要学会独自快乐。

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

即使在文学和艺术领域,也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反,如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次),十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

我的父母渴望我接受他们自己从未接受过的教育。他们不能引导我去读特定的书,但他们鼓励我去读,我随意地、强迫性地去读。