The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

  • -- Michael Ondaatje 迈克尔·翁达杰

每本小说的第一句话都应该是:相信我,这需要时间,但这里有秩序,很模糊,很人性化。如果你想进城的话,就溜达溜达吧。

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Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you've toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can't get too much. I don't consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume.

表扬不是积累的。表扬是一个循序渐进的过程,尤其是如果你已经辛苦工作了很长时间。表扬不会堆积如山。所以在某种程度上,你不能得到太多。我不认为它是一个可以用体积来衡量的量。

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

无论是在书中还是在生活中,你都需要读上几页才能了解一个人的真实性格。

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

书的功能是提供一种阅读体验。

I'm retiring because my time is up.

我退休了,因为我的时间到了。