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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

  • -- William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳

艺术家是被恶魔驱使的动物。他不知道他们为什么选择他，而且他通常太忙了，不知道为什么。

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I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities.

我有点像追着自己的尾巴，试图做正确的事情，有点傻。或者不负责任，我想这是一样的。那里真的很忙，我有很多很棒的机会。

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After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

写完一页后，海明威会让它浮在地上。他从不把书页弄皱——他相信如果你把它们弄皱，一年之内你就会发疯。

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If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.

如果你的工作让你忙得没有时间做其他事情，那一定是出了什么问题，不是你的问题，就是你的工作问题。

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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

除了人类，我不知道世界上还有什么动物会因为过去的痛苦经历而坐在角落里哭泣。

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The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

艺术家在任何时候的任务都是毫不妥协的简单，去发现尚未完成的事情，然后去做。

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All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

所有的文字都是面具，越是可爱，就越是要隐藏。

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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

对于像我们这样的小动物来说，只有通过爱，浩瀚才可以忍受。

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I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

我是个艺术家，不是学术民俗学者。

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