Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

  • -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti 劳伦斯·费林盖蒂

不要光顾连锁书店。每次我看到某个作家计划在连锁书店读书和签名,我就想告诉他,他在背后捅那些独立书店的竹杠。

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I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

我以为我们会向所有的事物开放诗歌和音乐的世界,但是,我真的想不出有谁做过这样的事情。

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

即使是现在,阿富汗也没有写小说的伟大传统。大多数文学作品是以诗歌的形式出现的。

You have to bow a few times before you can stand upright.

你必须鞠躬几次才能站直。

Suit yourself to the times.

你要适应这个时代。