If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

  • -- Dorothy Gilman 吉尔曼

如果某件期待已久的事情来得太晚,它会让我们麻木,让我们从等待中挣扎出来,让我们感觉——什么都没有。最好的东西准时到达。

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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

在它的概念中,文学奖属于这样一个时代,一个作家仍然可以被认为是一位圣人,因为他或她的职业,一个没有任何机构背景的人,可以对我们的时代以及我们的道德生活提供权威的话语。

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

我一生中只有几次和演员发生争执。它没有伤害电影,只是伤害了电影制作的瞬间。