People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.

  • -- Neil Strauss 尼尔·施特劳斯

人们不出来读书。他们想要感受一种情感,想要得到娱乐。

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I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.

我就像一个十项全能运动员,他做所有他习惯做的项目,但在某些情况下,他被迫专注于三项,被迫专注于他不感兴趣的项目,也不是他最强的项目。

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

有些事件是如此伟大,以至于如果一个作家参与其中,他的义务就是真实地写出来,而不是假设用发明来改变它们。

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

他们写了无数的书;太骄傲、太分散、不能缄默。各人追求自己的高升、躲避自己的空虚。

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

他对书籍的知识在某种程度上削弱了他对世界的知识。