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Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

  • -- Catherine Drinker Bowen 包恩

作家很少选择那些自成一体的人物作为朋友，他们从不惹麻烦，从不不开心或生病，从不犯错误，总是在别人给他们找钱的时候数数。

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I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

我坚决反对写学术小说。我一直认为，学术小说已经够多了，而且大多数都不好。他们中的大多数人都是有自我意识的和痛苦的，他们的工作是那些想要解决怨恨的人的工作。

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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

历史上有一些时期，变革是必要的，也有一些时期，一切都应按兵不动。生活的艺术在于跟上时代的节奏。

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We all need that one person in our lives who we can tell everything to and trust with our lives. Otherwise life becomes so lonely and painful.

我们都需要一个人在我们的生活中，我们可以告诉一切和信任我们的生活。否则，生活会变得如此孤独和痛苦。

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A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

在我所有的书中，一个主要的主题是中央情报局不仅是第一道防线，而且他们也应该是第一道防线。

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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

现在回想起来，我是一位作家。我说话是为了理解;我教书是为了学习。

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You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.

当你爱上敌人时，你改变了宇宙的规则。

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Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are.

告诉我你的朋友是谁，我就会告诉你你是谁。

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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

墙上的笔迹可能是伪造的。

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