Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing: it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustrations that it creates.

  • -- Mordecai Richler 莫迪凯·里奇勒

从根本上说,所有的写作都是关于同一件事:关于死亡,关于我们在这里所拥有的短暂时光,以及它所带来的挫折感。

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He that in his studies wholly applies himself to labour and exercise, and neglects meditation, loses his time, and he that only applies himself to meditation, and neglects labour and exercise, only wanders and loses himself.

如果一个人在他的研究中完全专注于劳动和锻炼,而忽视了冥想,那么他就浪费了时间;如果一个人只专注于冥想,而忽视了劳动和锻炼,那么他就只会徘徊和迷失自己。

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

无论我走到哪里,都会有人问我,我是否认为大学扼杀了作家。我的观点是,他们没有扼杀足够多的。有许多畅销书本可以被一个好老师阻止。

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

我就像大多数作家一样,当某些事情发生时,会让人无法抗拒,让人着迷,让人感动,诸如此类。除了写下来,我不知道还能做些什么。

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

音乐是有启迪作用的,因为它时常使灵魂活动起来。