The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

这封信很长,只是因为我没有时间把它写得短些。

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There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.

有一段时间,我第一次搬到纳什维尔,就像头几年一样,我完全迷失了。我不知道我是谁;我真的不知道我在这里做什么。我本想成为一名歌手,但我只是感到失落。就在那时,我开始寻找我的生身父母。

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

我花了六七年的时间写一些非常小的书。有一种简洁的美学。

Are we simply material? Yes. We don't have bodies we are bodies.

我们只是物质吗?是的。我们没有身体,我们是身体。

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

永远不要过于简短以至于变得晦涩难懂。