You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

  • -- Edouard Manet 爱德华·马内特

你几乎不会相信,把一个人单独放在画布上,把所有的兴趣都集中在这个单一的、普遍的人物身上,同时又保持它的鲜活和真实,是多么困难。

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I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.

我是个相当苦行的人。我大部分的写作都是在晚上。你不会分心,你的大脑会进入你所写的东西,进入你所写的世界,而不是你所处的世界。

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

我不知道你对我的生活方式有什么印象。我住在一个安静的地方。我不像隐士那样生活,尽管其他人更愿意我这样做。

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

我很早就知道你只有这么多的精力去给予。你必须正确地花钱。

Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

没有人计算你投放的广告数量;他们只记得你给他们留下的印象。