Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

  • -- Francoise Sagan 弗朗索瓦丝·萨冈

写作是找到某种节奏的问题。我把它比作爵士乐的节奏。大多数时候,生活是由三个字有节奏地发展而成的。如果一个人告诉自己生活就是这样,他就不会觉得那么武断。

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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

当你结婚的时候,问自己这个问题:你相信在你年老的时候你能和这个人很好地交谈吗?婚姻中的其他一切都是短暂的。

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'

在那些还没有演奏完最后一首赋格曲的情侣们之间的每一个问题和每一句反反复复的评论中,都有一个问题,那就是:“有新人吗?”

A finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

一个完成的故事可以使一个人在光明和文学意义上永生;但一个未完成的故事暗示着另一种不朽,更本质,也更奇怪。

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

今天,我们把他的遗体作为不朽的种子埋在地下。我们的心中充满了悲伤,但同时也充满了喜悦的希望和深深的感激。

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

因为我们的虚荣心如此强烈,以至于我们认为自己的性格是不可改变的,而我们却迟迟不承认自己的性格已经改变,甚至变得更好。

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

当然,表演仍然是我最喜欢做的事情。它的美妙之处在于,通过改变角色,它永远不会变得无聊。

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

写作不只是盯着丑陋的脸看,而是找到一种拥抱丑陋的方法。

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

人们谈论着消磨时间,而时间却悄悄地消磨着他们。