When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

  • -- Theodore H. White 白修德

当这本书出版时,就像哥伦布在费迪南德和伊莎贝拉的宫廷里讲述美洲一样。

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I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

我不认为我的书是传记。我从来没有兴趣写一本书,只是为了写一个伟人的生活。我对此毫无兴趣。我的兴趣在于权力。权力是如何工作的。

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

买书是一件好事,如果你还能买到时间来阅读的话:但是一般来说,买书会被误认为是占用了书的内容。

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

我有麻烦了,因为我很正常,有点自大。很多人不喜欢自己,而我恰好完全爱上了自己。

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.

我希望这张专辑听起来像一个大钩针毯子-温暖,但有很多空间。