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Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

  • -- Tobias Wolff 托比亚斯·沃尔夫

当然，这就是为什么你想成为一名作家——因为你有这样做的自由，但一旦你有了自由，你也有义务去做。

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The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.

我从来没有谈过私事。我永远不会。这是被禁止的。我的工作是公开的。但就是这样。当你不工作的时候，你没有义务成为公众人物。

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When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

当提到自由时，我们必须始终谨慎地观察，这是不是真正的主张个人利益，从而被指定。

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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

两个小时的小说写作使这位作家精疲力竭。在那两个小时里，他跟完全不同的人在一个不同的地方。

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That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

这是典型的作家所做的;我们大多数时间只是坐在那里抱怨。事情进展得越好，他们的抱怨就越多。

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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

有什么比享受自由带来的快乐更能使人幸福呢?

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God primes the pump of obligation.

上帝启动了义务的泵。

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