It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

只有在物体的世界里,我们才有时间、空间和自我。

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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

忙碌并不总是意味着真正的工作。所有工作的目标都是生产或成就,而要达到其中任何一个目标,都必须有先见之明、系统、计划、智慧、诚实的目标,以及勤奋。表面上做,实际上没有做。

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

当我写小说的时候,我面对的是双重生活。我活在现在的同时,我也活在过去,和我的角色在一起。正是这一点使一位小说家如此古怪,令人不快。

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

我希望人们被吸引到作品的空间中。很多人和我一样,注意力持续时间相对较短。所以我向机会之窗射击。

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

名声是行动的回声,向世界发出响亮的声音,只是回声只重复最后一种艺术,但名声与一切有关,而且往往比一切都重要。

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.

我总是入不敷出。我仍在努力入不敷出,但日子越来越不好过了。我很富有。

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

如果你是激情的对象,那就跳出窗外。如果你感觉到了,就逃离它。激情一去不复返,无聊依旧。

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

我一直喜欢读书,所以对文学世界很感兴趣,拍了很多文学肖像。

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

幽默并没有减少痛苦——它使周围的空间变得更大。