It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

  • -- Francoise Sagan 弗朗索瓦丝·萨冈

在我看来,有两种骗术:一种是人们在彼此眼前呈现的“门面”,另一种是作家在现实面前呈现的“门面”。

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I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.

我发现现在很多和我同龄的演员都和我更像,而不是像我那么优雅,也不是以某种方式长大的。现在有各种背景的人。

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

在所有的写作中,没有哪一种写作比幽默作品更容易出错,因为没有哪一种写作比幽默作品更有野心超越他人。

It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.

似乎无论我们进步到什么程度,总会有少数人在他们的道路上倒退。

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

现实的矛盾之处在于,没有一个形象能像只存在于脑海中的形象那样令人信服。

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

我觉得我对应该传授给别人的技术掌握得并不好。

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

现实并不简单存在,它必须被搜索和赢得。