I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

  • -- Robert Caro 罗伯特·卡洛

我不认为我的书是传记。我从来没有兴趣写一本书,只是为了写一个伟人的生活。我对此毫无兴趣。我的兴趣在于权力。权力是如何工作的。

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The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

取得重大成功的两个最重要的条件是:第一,在正确的时间出现在正确的地点,第二,为此做点什么。

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

他只学了一半的阅读艺术,而没有加上更高雅的跳绳和略读的艺术。

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

如果一个人不能一次又一次地享受读书的乐趣,那么读书就毫无用处。

I am just relaxing and enjoying myself, doing what I always did.

我只是放松和享受自己,做我一直做的事情。

It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.

从零开始成为名人是非常令人困惑的。

The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.

一个经济体的收入效应总和总是为零。