I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

-- Truman Capote 杜鲁门·卡波特

我的想法是做一个真正严肃的大工程——就像一本小说一样，只有一点不同:它的每一个字从头到尾都是真实的。

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A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

刚当上父亲的人很快就会发现，他的孩子总是在他上厕所的准确时间来上厕所，好像他需要有人陪着一样。对这位父亲来说，确保浴室隐私的唯一方法就是在加油站刮胡子。

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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

我们所观察的宇宙，如果其本质上没有设计、没有目的、没有恶、没有善，只有盲目、无情的冷漠，那么它就具有我们所期望的特性。

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A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

事实本身并不重要。它的价值只在于它所附带的思想，或它所提供的证明。

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A thought is an idea in transit.

思想是一种正在传递的思想。

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