A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

  • -- Vladimir Nabokov 弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫

小说家就像所有的凡人一样,面对现实比面对过去更自在。

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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

当我完全确定一个结果值得得到时,我就会走在它前面,不断地尝试,直到它到来。

Loving someone who doesn’t love you back is like hugging a cactus. The tighter you hold on, the more it hurts.

爱一个不爱你的人就像抱着一颗仙人掌。你抓得越紧,就越疼。

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection

生两次并不比生一次更令人惊奇;自然界的一切都在复活

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.

在爱德华王子岛,我们完全熟悉这一现代现象。