The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

  • -- Ralph Ellison 埃利森

写作需要不断地回到过去的阴影中,时间像幽灵一样徘徊。

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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

我认为我为比我想象中更多的人写作的想法已经产生了一种文学和政治上的普遍责任。我甚至有一种自豪感,因为我不想落后于我以前所做的。

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

有意识学习的每一个行为都需要愿意遭受自尊的伤害。这就是为什么小孩子在意识到自己的重要性之前,很容易就学会了。

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

作为一个贵族的缺点之一是,有时你不得不像一个贵族那样行事。

Every time I think I couldn’t love you a bit more, you stretch my heart again.

每次我想我不能再爱你一点,你又一次舒展了我的心。

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.

我戴着王冠度过了很多时间。

The desire to write grows with writing.

写作的欲望随着写作而增长。