I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

  • -- Russell Banks 罗素·班克斯

我从一个有艺术天赋的男孩开始……作为一个视觉艺术家…我想这就是我现在的样子,在我十几岁的时候,我开始阅读严肃的文学作品。

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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

然而,尽管承认这些争论的力量,在公共集会上为审议人类最严肃、最崇高的利益问题而聚集在一起的习惯是极其宝贵的,不容忽视。

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

伟大的文学必须产生于作者灵魂的剧变。如果这种剧变不存在,那么它一定来自任何其他作者的作品,而这些作品恰好是方便和容易改编的。

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

我是一个典型的农场男孩。我喜欢农场。我喜欢你在农场做的事情,去排水沟钓鱼,看小龙虾,摘一点棉花。

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

哦,只要我活着,要做生活的主宰,而不是奴隶,要像一个强大的征服者那样迎接生活,任何外在的东西都不能控制我。

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

孩子们,他们现在不能拿走我的冰箱。他们现在不会得到我的车了。我用现金买的,它们是我的,我留着!

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

文学可以提醒我们,并非所有的人生都已被记录下来:还有那么多故事等着我们去讲述。

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

这是基因决定的,因为我哥哥是记者,我父亲是体育作家。

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

我喜欢做喜剧——我从中得到乐趣,它不是那么严肃。

Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.

通常年龄较大的球员在赛季末会开始感到寒冷。

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

我不认为我成为一个父亲有那么晚。