It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

  • -- George Plimpton 乔治·普林顿

这也是口述传记的乐趣之一,因为读者,而不是编辑,是陪审团。

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The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.

读过这些回忆录的人会发现,在我的眼前,我从来没有一个固定的目标,我的系统,如果可以称为一个系统的话,就是随波逐流,随波逐流。

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

任何一个坐下来思考有多少人知道他或她恋爱的真实情况的人,都能看出写传记有多难。

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

传记是一个非常明确的地域,它以历史为北,以小说为南,以讣告为东,以沉闷为西。

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

我是一个如饥似渴的作家,正如我是一个读者一样。