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You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

  • -- Wilbur Smith 威尔伯·史密斯

你知道那种感觉吗?当你期末考试结束时，你想，‘我再也不想做那样的事了’?当我读完一本小说时，我也有同样的感觉。每次我说“我想我现在可以退休了”，六个月后，我的想法又开始翻腾起来。我停不下来。

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After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'

从那以后，我每年都回来。每个人都说，‘好吧，等你退休了，你可以搬到那里去。但我说，“我为什么要一辈子生活在我不想去的地方呢?”

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A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

一部好的小说应该是令人深感不安的——它的满足感应该来自它的真实性和形式上的连贯性。我们必须感觉到一些至关重要的事情正处于危险之中。

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I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

我认为阿富汗妇女的解放必须来自内部，通过阿富汗人自己，逐步地，随着时间的推移。

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I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.

我总是说，到了退休的时候，我就知道了，我要向所有的人脱帽致敬。

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Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

只有时间能治愈你破碎的心。就像只有时间才能治愈他受伤的胳膊和腿一样。

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I wrote the worst novel ever.

我写了有史以来最糟糕的小说。

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