A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.

  • -- Chaim Potok 小说家波图克

一个非小说作家在他或她面前有一个人物的形状,并不断完善它。一部非小说作品并不像小说作品那么难写,但它最终并没有那么令人满意。

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Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.

很多时候,孩子不能让他们的父母犯错,因为他们必须和他们一起生活,因为他们必须爱他们。当你年轻的时候,你不能骑着你的大轮子去看最好的西部片。你必须住在那里,你必须弄清楚。

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

我们称失去父亲的人为孤儿;一个失去妻子的鳏夫。但是,这个人知道失去朋友的巨大痛苦,我们用什么名字称呼他呢?在这里,每一种语言都是沉默的,在无能为力中保持着平静。

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

我认为自己是一个很好的判断人的人……所以我一个也不喜欢。

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

在学校我很安静。在我大三之前我都有点害羞。但在家里我是个怪胎。

Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.

凯撒意识到了这些征兆,但他不相信它们适用于他。

Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

当你搞不清杀手是谁的时候,他们看起来很聪明。