It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.

  • -- William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳

我的目标是,尽我最大的努力,把我一生的全部和历史,也就是我的讣告和墓志铭,都写在这句话里。

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Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

生活能让你更好地理解生活。我希望我的角色能变得更深刻、更全面。更广泛的旅行让我对文化差异如何影响人们、政治和艺术有了更深刻的了解。

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

单词和句子是复习的主题;段落和整篇文章都是先见之明的主题。