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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

  • -- Tobias Wolff 托比亚斯·沃尔夫

在短篇小说中，每一件事都要有分量，才能真正成为头等大事。

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I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

我开始在吉他上做各种奇怪的东西，这成为我演奏的一部分。我开始做和声，弹吉他，拉弦，做所有这些以前没人做过的奇怪的事情。

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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

没有一个人仅仅靠自己的努力就能取得今天的成就。我们来到这里是因为有人——一位家长，一位老师，一位常春藤盟校的密友，或者几个修女——弯下腰来帮我们捡起了靴子。

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I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting.

我非常喜欢多伦多，它是一个好城市。多伦多唯一让我恼火的是，你把枫叶花园变成了一个杂货店，简直令人作呕。

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There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

后悔是没有意义的。如果你没有时间，就不要犯罪。人生苦短，别为我说过的话担心。

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