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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So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

所以,让我们对自己诚实一点,不要把自己看得太严肃,永远不要因为别人每天做的事情而责备他,只是用不同的方式罢了。

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

为了确认我的身份,我没有像大多数路德教男孩那样,得到一块手表和我的第一条长裤。我有一个望远镜。我妈妈认为这是最好的礼物。

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested.

晚睡、玩乐、狂欢、喝威士忌、在空旷的街道上开快车,脑子里只想着坠入爱河而不被逮捕。

This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not alone.

这就是伟大的文学。它读起来像真理,永远粘在你身上,让你知道你并不孤单。

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

所有糟糕的文学作品都建立在不完善的洞察力或模仿的基础上,而模仿可以被定义为“二手的”。

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

现在学习希伯来语已经太晚了;更重要的是要理解今天的俚语。

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

麦卡锡家的小伙子们在适当的时候下令向前进的敌人开火。

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

一位资深记者在写作前从来没有时间三思。

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

生活是一件太重要的事,永远不能严肃地谈论。

Time marks us while we are marking time.

我们在计时时,时间在标记我们。