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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

  • -- George Ade 乔治·艾迪

在被众多出版商拒绝后，他决定为子孙后代写作。

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People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.

人们总是问我和波西亚我们是不是要生孩子。我们想过了。我们喜欢在孩子们吃过饭、洗过澡之后和他们在一起。但我们最终决定不要我们自己的孩子。我们家的玻璃太多了。

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Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.

我想在过去的三十年里，我一直在做这件事，离开家等等，这真的不是我取得了什么成就，或者我是否成为了一名更好的球员，或者我十年前踢得比现在更好。

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One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

有一件事，当你是一名演员时，你完成了一些事情，然后你不得不担心下一个演出是什么。当你是一个音乐家的时候，你总是可以写你自己的东西，而我现在正在为一张新专辑写新东西。

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Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

写小说并不仅仅是一次跨越边境的购物之旅，而是在想象中的工厂、街道和大教堂里度过数小时甚至数年的时间。

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People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.

人们对出版商有不好的评价，但我认为他们仍然有服务，我想看看他们是什么。如果它们最终没有任何用处，我就不用一直用它们了。

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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

我想人们不会因为什么而记住我。但我不会用这些术语来思考我的工作。为子孙后代而工作和为金钱而工作一样庸俗。

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I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

有一天，我终于决定，通过阅读当时的科幻杂志，我可以做得至少和其中一些人一样好。所以我最终做出了认真的努力。

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When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.

当我写一个原创的故事时，我写的是我直接认识的人和我熟悉的情况。我不写关于十九世纪的故事。

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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.

一位作家去世一段时间后，他的出版商每年都很难从他那里得到一本新书。

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I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

我喜欢圣诞节。我真的很喜欢圣诞节。我喜欢和我的家人在一起，我喜欢雪。我喜欢这里的音乐、灯光等等。

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People will inevitably want you more after you find someone -- don't sacrifice what you have just because they missed their chance.

在你找到另一半之后，人们不可避免地会更需要你——不要仅仅因为他们错过了机会就牺牲你所拥有的。

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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

如果没有荷马，亚历山大这个疯子还会这么疯狂吗?

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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

大量的印刷品已经把阅读变成了一种吞咽而不是品味的过程。

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There is a difference between giving up, and knowing when you have had enough.

放弃和知道自己什么时候已经受够了是有区别的。

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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

在将来的某个时候，每个人都必须为他们的错误行为付出代价。

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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

国家越腐败，法律就越多。

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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

一个传教士使我兴奋，另一个使我沮丧。

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After you get what you want you don't want it.

当你得到你想要的东西后，你就不想要了。

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I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.

我在上面。现在，我陷入了困境。

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Novel writing wrecks homes.

写小说毁了房子。

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