While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

  • -- James Branch Cabell 卡贝尔

虽然在时间的沙滩上留下脚印已经足够好了,但更重要的是要确保它们指向值得称道的方向。

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It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

这可能就是为什么我是一个短篇小说作家。我倾向于以叙事性的形式来记忆过去的事情,以故事的形式,我在讲故事的人身边长大。

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

我们离开这个世界越多,离开的就越少。从长远来看,我们将不得不在一个对我们自己的生存可能非常不方便的时候还债。