The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

  • -- Reynolds Price 雷诺兹·普莱斯

随着年龄的增长,我发现自己越不愿意回去重读或真正读新的小说或诗歌。

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It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

总而言之或总而言之,可能性总是相同的,它们不断地重复着,直到一个不把现实看得比思想更重要的人出现为止。他首先赋予新的可能性以意义和方向,然后唤醒它们。

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

天哪,我多么讨厌新的国家:他们比旧的国家更老,更世故,更自负,只是出于某种幼稚的虚荣心而年轻,这种虚荣心比任何东西都更像衰老。

It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

这是我的希望,我的信念,你将能够报告,我死的尊严,没有动物的恐惧,没有虚张声势。我欠自己这么多。

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

贫穷和被称为种族隔离的种族统治迫使特兰斯基安移民离开安全的土地到城市工作,然后再回来。

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

我们每个人在童年都有第一次活过来的时刻。我们回想那些时刻,然后想,这就是我成为我自己的时刻。

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

我总是在想我是否应该在某件事上很优秀。我想,正因为如此,我对自己有很多不安全感。