It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.

  • -- Joan Didion 琼·狄迪恩

我从伯克利毕业后过了几年才敢开始写作。这种学术心态——无论如何对我来说有点肤浅——已经开始消退。

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My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.

我的姐妹们在学业上很有天赋,所以每当她们给我介绍对象时,总是来自她们那个圈子里的某个人,她们会觉得这个人很有吸引力。当他们穿着西装来到门口时,一切都结束了。

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

四年的足球生涯在普通人身上孕育的成功要素,几乎比他上的任何一门学术课程都要多。