Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters - not so much above the clatter as part of it.

  • -- Saul Bellow 索尔·贝娄

我们的社会,就像腐朽的罗马一样,已经变成了一个娱乐社会,作家主要是宫廷弄臣中的一员。

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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

无论我走到哪里,都会有人问我,我是否认为大学扼杀了作家。我的观点是,他们没有扼杀足够多的。有许多畅销书本可以被一个好老师阻止。

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do - well, that's memoirs.

当你放下你本应该做的好事,把你做过的坏事抛诸脑后——好吧,这就是回忆录。