To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.

多说而无所成,犹如爬树捉鱼。

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One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost never read it. It would be like sitting at their dinner table and opening a packet of sandwiches.

和朋友呆在一起的乐趣之一就是你可以浏览他们的书架。我总是带着一本书来,但我几乎从未读过它。这就像坐在餐桌前打开一包三明治。

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.

对我来说,写小说更像是打一口井,而不是爬山——一件我要征服的英雄壮举。我只是静静地坐了几年,然后它开始变得有意义。

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

除尘就是一个很好的例子,说明试图把事情做好是徒劳的。一旦你掸去灰尘,你下一次掸灰的事实就已经确定了。

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

随着冷杉的第一次生产,我认为没有必要做任何事情,除了用正确的设置生产它。

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

心中有一棵绿树,也许歌唱的鸟儿会来。

Even the tiniest of hopes can show me the way to arrive at my goal

即使是最微小的希望也能告诉我如何达到我的目标

Pigs may whistle, but they hae an ill mouth for 't.

猪会吹口哨,但它的嘴却不好使。