Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

  • -- Irwin Shaw 欧文·肖

每个小说家都有不同的目的,而且常常是几个相互矛盾的目的。

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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

懒惰的人往往是无聊的,无聊的人,除非他们睡得多,是残酷的。在我们这个时代,无聊和残酷是人们最关心的事情,这并非偶然。

I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to.

我确信有很多事情我应该以不同的方式去做。但我想我没有踩到任何人。如果我有,我也不是故意的。

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

宣传者的目的是让一群人忘记某些人是人。

We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

我们在地球上是为他人做好事的。其他人来这里干什么,我不知道。

Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.

在音乐行业是一个完全不同的行业。

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

演员,你知道,他们在现实生活中经常是很尴尬的人。