Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

  • -- Nadine Gordimer 纳丁·戈迪默

写作使生活变得有意义。你一生都在工作,也许你已经理解了一个小领域。

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We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

如果我们可以只分配三个类别,大、中、小,我们会很高兴;关键是,我们想避免个人判断。它实际上是一个非常精细的音阶。

My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around.

我的孩子们喜欢伊比沙岛,我们对它很投入,因为我们总是回到同一个地方。现在人们在商店里认出了我们,我们在这里过着社交生活。我们在家做饭,周围有朋友。

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

一些将军说,我们正在取得进展。我们正在清理一个区域。但你真的不能通过清理一个地区来打败塔利班。他们的举动。

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

我宁愿承受太多自由带来的不便,也不愿承受太少自由带来的不便。

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

我们必须为工作本身而工作,而不是为了财富、关注或掌声。

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

虚构是谎言里的真相。