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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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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

文学的功能，通过它所有的变异，一直是让我们意识到自我的特殊性，以及自我在与社会和文化的冲突中的高度权威。从这个意义上说，文学是颠覆性的。

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Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

做一个有趣的人对你有很多好处。你觉得你不应该对别人太认真。他们不期待你这么做，他们也不想看到你这么做。你没资格严肃，你是个小丑。

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My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.

我的家人八个月来从未错过一次探望，从来没有。我哭着走了出来。我没有哭着进来。差别很大。我相信上帝把我关在这里是有原因的，监禁是很严重的。

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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。

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Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

礼貌:喝汤时不要发出的声音。

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I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

我以为我的工作就是给所有的男孩一个初吻。

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There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

如果你做的太迟了一天，那么做一件好事是没有用的。

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Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

事实上，我大学毕业时是一名记者。

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It's never too late to be what you might have been

成为你想成为的人，永远不会太迟

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Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.

等待结局，孩子们，等待结局。

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