Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

  • -- Thomas Mann 托马斯·曼

孤独在我们心中孕育着原始,孕育着陌生而危险的美——孕育着诗歌。但它也产生了相反的东西:反常的、非法的、荒谬的东西。

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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

写作是一项孤独的职业。家庭、朋友和社会是作家的天敌。如果他想要维持并完成一项事业,他必须是一个人,不受打扰,有点野蛮。

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

如果我的口音暴露了我的外国血统,在制片人的想象中,它也会让我成为一个敌人。

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

我出生和工作的时期可以说是令人羡慕的。

I owe my solitude to other people.

我把孤独归功于别人。