The city is old, out of step with the century, but age only seems to have quickened its elements... Relics from the past continually pierce the present. Some dream of love survives the sandstone apartment houses.

  • -- John Cheever 约翰·契佛

这座城市很古老,与世纪不同步,但岁月似乎只是加快了它的元素……过去的遗迹不断地刺穿现在。有些爱情的梦想在砂岩公寓里依然存在。

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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

生活本来就不容易。处于高位或低位是很难接受的。我想我是宿命论者。我认为,你必须有历史感,才能在这些事情中生存下来……生活是一个接一个的危机。

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

有时我认为人类动物并不真的需要食物或水来生存,只是八卦而已。