No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.

  • -- Isaac Babel 伊萨克·巴别尔

没有什么铁器能像在适当的时候完全停止跳动那样令人心寒。

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At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

最后,实现的是,她去一个地方护在她的生活,她会掉,使和平与她是否有少量的时间,她的生活完全通过,而不是靠规则。

At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

每一种信仰体系的核心都是一笔交易:一方面,从一段说明人类生活具有宇宙意义的叙述中获得的慰藉,另一方面,人们有责任服从道德命令,而在目前看来,道德命令可能相当不方便。

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

没有什么比一个作家站在观众面前读他的作品更令人苦恼或厌倦的了。

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

写很多东西然后上街。一个跟不上时代潮流的作家是不会有出头之日的。

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

有时候你伤透了心,如果你明白我的意思的话。

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.

我母亲一直在为我操心。