Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

  • -- Charles Bukowski 查尔斯·布考斯基

作家是绝望的人,当他们不再绝望时,他们也就不再是作家了。

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Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

选举竞争除了民意调查什么都没有,这就是为什么人们对选举如此着迷;我们迫切需要对正在发生的事情和可能发生的事情作出客观的描述。

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

当一个国家强大时……它接受作者的任何悲观论调。

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

我到了绝望的地步,除了上帝,没有人能帮助我。

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

在麦卡锡时代的鼎盛时期,作家们受到了迫害。