To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

  • -- F. Scott Fitzgerald F.斯科特·菲茨杰拉德

对于一个对生活极度悲观的人来说,身处危险并不令人沮丧。

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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

这是我的规则:你总是想支付现金为自己的书,因为如果他们看信用卡上的名字,然后看看这本书的名字夹克,还有这的深刻同情你,你不得不求助于这个。它真的在枯萎。

I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.

我喜欢写小说和回忆录。两者都面临着独特的挑战;总之,小说很难,因为你必须想出可信、曲折的情节,而回忆录很难,因为你必须说一些真实而深刻的东西,尽管是以一种有趣的方式。

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

没有天赋的努力是令人沮丧的……但是,没有努力的天赋是一场悲剧。

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

当你还活着,你的专辑已经绝版的时候,这是令人沮丧的。