I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

  • -- Dermot Healy 德莫特·赫利

我大部分时间都是在办公室里,在家里外面的小屋里写作,但有时会很冷。在火车上,在人群中,我写得最好。作为一名作家,你花了很多时间远离人群。

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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

的标准……我们能在无数的结果中加以区分吗?这些结果也是原因,而在我们所知道的原因中,也许也是结果,我们怎么能区分哪些是手段,哪些是目的呢?

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

小说家是幸福的,他设法把自己年轻时收到的一封真正的情书保存在一部小说里,就像一颗干净的子弹嵌在松弛的肌肉里,在虚假的生活中安然无恙。

Sometimes I feel people think I live on a commune but I don't. We are all solar, though. There are no power lines. It's mostly farmers, so everyone who has tractors uses bio-diesel.

有时我觉得人们以为我住在公社里,但我没有。然而,我们都是太阳能。没有电线。大部分是农民,所以每个拥有拖拉机的人都使用生物柴油。

At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.

在一个国家的生活中很少出现的时刻。这是一个命运掌握在我们手中的时刻。

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

我知道很多关于一些事情——大部分是无用的事情。

I make film to make time pass.

我拍电影是为了打发时间。