We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.

  • -- Ben Gibbard 本杰明·吉巴德

我们都渴望生活中有一段时间,事情变得简单。即使它们不一定更简单,后见之明也会让它们看起来简单得多。但事实并非如此。

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Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

在我看来,没有作家在写作过程中不经历痛苦,就不会有好的作品。写作应该是一种乐趣,但除非你在写小说的过程中多次感到几乎崩溃,否则你还没有给自己足够的压力。

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

在我们这个时代,政治演讲和写作在很大程度上是站不住脚的辩护。