The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

-- Isabel Allende 伊莎贝尔·阿连德

事实上，人们认为当你卖了很多书，你不是一个严肃的作家，这是对读者的极大侮辱。当人们试图说这样的话时，我有点生气。

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I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!

我从来没有真正被明星吸引过。我有点吃惊,当我最近在做一个访谈节目,我是坐在化妆椅旁边一个人说我聊天但我不能仔细察看,看看是谁,只有当我起床我意识到它已经被布莱恩•亚当斯我说话!

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All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.

我所能说的是，多年来，我一直在阅读那些模糊的话语，愤怒的棒球运动员，以及在颁奖典礼上被淘汰的摇滚明星们的唇语，这真是太搞笑了。每个人都在问我，那些褪色的部分在说什么。

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No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

任何企业都不能单独存在。它服务于某种巨大的需要，它履行着某种伟大的服务，不是为自己，而是为别人;否则，它就不再有利可图，不再存在。

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A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

短篇小说集通常被认为是可怕的熟料;对这位想要展示自己年轻时的战利品和鳟鱼蝇的年长作家来说，这是一种强制性的礼貌。

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A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

我们很多人都不想对世界问题那么严肃。我们的生活是为了享受，而不是成为一个永远的持不同政见者，永远对现状和人类的现状感到不满。

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Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

最重要的是，我不能生气。我若发怒，就把那惹我发怒的可怜人的一切牙齿，从他口中打掉。

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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

科幻小说家预见到了不可避免的事情，尽管问题和灾难可能是不可避免的，但解决方案并非如此。

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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

对人们给予积极的关注这一简单的行为与生产力有很大的关系。

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Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.

迈阿密是世界上最大的文化熔炉之一。我喜欢在这里工作和生活。

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。

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I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

我认为书还存在是件好事，但它们确实让我昏昏欲睡。

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I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

我想知道我一生中见过多少人却从未见过。

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You might say I was a little bit more outspoken... I spoke my mind.

你可能会说我更坦率一些……我说出了我的想法。

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I never intended to only do dark, serious things.

我从来没有打算只做黑暗的、严肃的事情。

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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

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