The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

火药的真正用途是使所有的人都长高。

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You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

你能从普通人那里听到最好的故事。对我来说,那种即时性的感觉比许多文采十足、文采十足的故事更真实。当我读小说时,我想要那种即时性。

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

世界上到处都是小说,书中的人物只是说说而已。当然也有一些合法的类型,这就足够了。但在真实和持久的写作中,角色是。

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

我没有有意识地努力变得强硬,或者冷酷无情,或者冷酷无情,或者任何我通常被称作的东西。

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.

休斯公司有一项禁止在午餐时喝酒的政策,但那些人却置之不理。

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

男人在书中比在现实生活中更有趣。

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

人只要下定决心,就会感到幸福。