Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

  • -- Yann Martel 扬·马泰尔

正如音乐是有意义的噪音,绘画是有意义的色彩,故事是有意义的生活。

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You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that: ‘Don’t do music, you’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art, you won’t be an artist.’ Benign advice — now, profoundly mistaken.

当你还是个孩子的时候,你可能被善意地引导着远离学校里的事情——你喜欢的事情——理由是你永远不会找到一份做这些事情的工作:“不要做音乐,你不会成为一名音乐家。”不搞艺术,你就成不了艺术家。“善意的建议——现在,大错特错了。

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

许多年前,我不得不辞职,因为在解释我对事物的感受时,我表达得不是很清楚。但我的音乐为我做到了,真的。

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

我不记得读过的书,就像我不记得吃过的饭一样;即便如此,他们还是让我这么做了。

There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.

先生,没有比书更重的东西了——除非是砖头。