Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.

  • -- Robert Caro 罗伯特·卡洛

我每次上班都穿夹克打领带,因为我天生就很懒,我的书要花很长时间才能完成,我的出版商也不烦我,所以很容易让自己误以为自己比实际工作更努力。

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To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

要能写剧本,一个人必须敏感、富于想象力、天真、易受骗、热情;他一定是个低能儿,诗人,说谎者,一个该死的傻瓜。

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

任何傻瓜都知道虚张声势总是为了掩盖不安全感。这是真相。在此,我要说声晚安。上帝爱你。

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

每一种思想都有其真理的成分,这种成分持续的时间长到足以被称为陈词滥调。

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

把过去的事带到现在需要很长时间。