All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

  • -- Paul Auster 保罗·奥斯特

我想做的就是写作——在那个时候,诗歌和散文也是。我想我的野心只是简单地赚钱,尽我所能以一种谦虚的方式来维持自己的生活,我不需要太多,我当时还没有结婚,没有孩子。

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Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.

有时候我乔装打扮出去,但是人们还是认出了我,所以我发现即使尝试也没有意义。偶尔远离它是件好事,但事实是,地球上没有一个地方可以让我不被认出来。

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

单词,单词,单词!他们把一个人与宇宙隔绝了。四分之三的时间里,一个人从来没有接触过事物,只接触过代表它们的兽性的词语。