Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

  • -- Edmund White 埃德蒙·怀特

小说是对一个人想说什么,有什么感觉,有什么意思的不断探索,从这个意义上说,是一种行为艺术,而传记需要不同的技巧——研究和组织。

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For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are.

在人类历史的大部分时间里,我们一直在宇宙中寻找自己的位置。我们是谁?我们是什么?我们发现自己居住在一颗不起眼的行星上,它是一颗平凡的恒星,迷失在一个星系中,隐藏在宇宙某个被遗忘的角落里,而宇宙中就有这样一个角落。

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

我的登山技巧对我最好的摄影作品并不重要,但它们确实为我的作品增添了一个与大多数摄影师不同的元素。

Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.

与只会做一件事的人相比,培养多种技能的人似乎更聪明、更有活力、更适应环境。

I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.

我喜欢研究的自由。另外,如果我在科学上失败了,我知道我能活下来,因为我有医学博士学位。这是我的保险单。

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

一个组织一旦失去了开拓精神,依赖于早期的工作,它的进步就会停止。

Don't agonize. Organize.

不要折磨。组织。