There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

  • -- Robert A. Heinlein 罗伯特·海因莱因

作家不可能被驯服,变得文明,甚至被治愈。目前科学界所知的唯一解决办法是为病人提供一间隔离室,在那里他可以独自忍受急性期,食物可以用棍子戳进他的身体。

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As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.

由于这两位伟大的研究科学家都未能找到这个谜团的答案,难怪他们同时代的人也无法找到答案。

Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

食物是燃料,除了给你的身体提供营养外,并不是解决任何问题的方法。我和邻家女孩一样喜欢巧克力,但这不会改变我的处境。

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.

情景喜剧已经过时了——它们都遵循套路。我讨厌他们的老式音乐。我讨厌使用笑轨。

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

对我来说,保持纯洁的良心远比指导任何伟大的目标重要。

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

当然,任何试图用确定性方法生成随机数的人都是生活在罪恶的状态中。

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

写作并不一定是一件让人感到羞耻的事情,但一定要在私下里写,然后再洗手。

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

我看得出来,作为一个作家,当你在写一首歌的时候,沿着低音线走是一个很受欢迎的举动。

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

如果个人美德的根病了,公共廉洁的果实就必然腐败。

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

我喜欢当作家。我不能忍受的是文书工作。