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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

  • -- Cyril Connolly 西里尔·康诺利

宁可为自己写作而没有公众，也不要为公众写作而没有自我。

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It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

我的观点是，每本书都有自己的结构和长度。我已经写了三四本薄薄的书。也许下一部小说会很成功，但我不知道。

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What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

我们现在要做的是让广大公众意识到，我们所看到的不是一个历史事件，而是——我不得不说得很残酷——一个骗局。

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Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

一旦你有了孩子，那就是无尽的爱。毫无疑问，你会在一瞬间为他们而死。你怎么能做得更好呢?

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A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

很多人来找我，问我是如何在完成这么多工作的同时，仍然看起来那么心不在焉。

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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

作为一个公众人物，作为一个公民，衡量你的素质的标准是你做什么和你说什么之间的差距。

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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

过去看起来总是比过去好。只是因为它不在这里才令人愉快。

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