Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

  • -- Salman Rushdie 鲁西迪

书籍选择作者;创造的行为并不完全是理性的和有意识的。

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May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

最后,我想说,我对伟大没有幻想;恰恰相反,我非常谦虚地认识到,在我四十年的生活中,我的生活是一本公开的书,服务于我的建筑师同行和公共利益。

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

一本真正的好书教会我的比读它更好。我必须马上把它放下,开始按照它的暗示生活。我从读书开始,必须从表演结束。

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

我喜欢最后期限。我喜欢它们飞过时发出的嗖嗖声。

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

女人想把爱情写成小说。男人,一个短篇故事。