I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

  • -- David Foster Wallace 大卫·福斯特·华莱士

我经常认为我可以在自己和其他年轻作家身上看到这一点,这种对取悦他人的绝望渴望,加上对读者的敌意。

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Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

永远不要认为敌人敌意的减弱意味着他们已经被征服了。这只是意味着一个国家不再构成威胁。

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

这是对我自己的心理欺骗。我假装我在做一个新节目,所以我忘记了我正在做的材料,编造了一些新的材料。

There was hostility surrounding doing my job.

人们对我的工作怀有敌意。

I don't see myself as Johnny Football.

我不认为自己是强尼足球。