You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

  • -- Carlisle Floyd 卡莱尔·弗洛伊德

你不可能预测什么会持续多久。但是,一旦你尝试写作多年,你就注定要失败。

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In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.

在个别工业中,妇女劳工发挥重要作用,任何提倡提高工资、缩短工作时间等的运动,从一开始就不会因为没有组织的女工的态度而注定失败。

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

我所写的都是发生在我和我认识的人身上的事情,我对他们了解得越多,他们就越有可能被写出来。

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

写诗的冲动就像发痒一样。当痒得够烦人的时候,你就挠它。