Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.

  • -- Thorne Smith 索恩·史密斯

我很随意地进入我的情节,在我的角色周围闲逛了一会儿,然后慢慢离开,没有留下任何道德的证明,也没有留下任何读者的改进。

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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

因为我们的虚荣心如此强烈,以至于我们认为自己的性格是不可改变的,而我们却迟迟不承认自己的性格已经改变,甚至变得更好。

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

二十年前我自己写的许多文章现在给我的印象是,它们对我来说是相当陌生的东西。

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

我对后悔有着强烈的感情。你根本不知道另一种选择是什么。

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

角色们确实有自己的生活;这很奇怪。