I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

  • -- Robert Caro 罗伯特·卡洛

我试图通过我的写作来阐明我所相信的东西:传记——一般来说是历史——可以是文学中最深刻、最高意义上的文学。

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A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

一幅画必须具有产生光的真正力量,很长一段时间以来,我一直有意识地通过光,或者说在光中表达自己。

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

原谅自己吗?不,那没有用:我们必须被原谅。但我们只能相信这是可能的,如果我们自己能原谅。

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

每个人都是他自己的创造,是他自己思想和信仰的形象。每个人的想法和信仰都是如此。

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

当一个人把他的想法写在纸上的时候,从某种意义上说,他是在为出版而写作。

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

写作应该是困难的,痛苦的,可怕的练习,可怕的职业。

If god brings you to it; he will bring you through it.

如果上帝让你这么做;他会帮你度过难关的。