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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You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

你说的是年轻一代,Y一代,他们的人际沟通技巧与x一代不同。

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

我能在这里打断一下吗,因为还有另一种解释,你特别适合研究它。你知道有这样一种说法,就是实验室里的炼金术士发明了这种甜蜜的新工具。

It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.

愚弄自己很容易。愚弄你的下属是可能的。愚弄同事要难得多。但要愚弄你手下的人几乎是不可能的。

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

因为身体是一台机器,所以教育是可能的。教育是习惯的形成,是一种人工组织对身体自然组织的超诱导。

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

我不是那种对每个角色都进行详尽研究的演员。

My skills are still my skills.

我的技能仍然是我的技能。