But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

  • -- Benjamin Chase Harper 本杰明·蔡斯·哈珀

但我永远不会侮辱热爱这首音乐的人,我永远不会侮辱音乐在我生命中的祝福,我永远不会通过演奏没有灵感的音乐来侮辱我自己。

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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

人们有时告诉我,比起文明,他们更喜欢野蛮。我怀疑他们是否进行了足够长的试验。就像亚历山大的人们一样,他们对文明感到厌倦;但所有的证据都表明,野蛮行为的无聊程度要大得多。

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

即使是那些成功地写了这些小说并赚了钱的人,似乎也觉得有必要假装这没什么大不了的,或者说是从诗歌到小说的自然发展的一部分,但通常情况下,真正重要的只是钱,以及所感知到的声望。