Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

  • -- Hosea Ballou 马士

简洁是改正之母。

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Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

短篇小说消耗你更快。它们与简洁有关。在短篇小说中,你面对的是死亡。我知道他们作为一种形式是多么的艰难,但他们也是一种完全的快乐。

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

我知道为人父母是多么令人清醒和疲惫。但现实是,我们的孩子的未来取决于我们作为父母。因为我们知道,最初的几年真的会永远持续下去。

The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.

为我的新航程所作的准备工作,使我无法集中精力改正我的错误,否则我就会改正的。

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

我从未结过婚,现在我也不想再结婚了。我讨厌官僚主义,也不信教。

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

我很幸运地成长在一个中产阶级家庭,父母都很勤奋,他们喜欢阅读和数学。

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

我花了六七年的时间写一些非常小的书。有一种简洁的美学。

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

你出生了。你承受。你死。幸运的是,有一个漏洞。

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

把一个人从错误中解放出来就是给予,而不是索取。