A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

  • -- Charles Peguy 查尔斯·佩吉

一个词对一个作家来说和对另一个作家来说是不一样的。有人把它从肚子里扯出来。另一个人从大衣口袋里把它掏了出来。

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We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

我们已经到了道路上的一个转折点。如果我们转向右边,也许我们的孩子和我们孩子的孩子会走那条路;但如果我们转向左边,未出生的后代将会诅咒我们的名字,因为我们对上帝和他的话不忠。

Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.

节俭购物实际上是我还是那个孩子的一种延伸,我去了一个完全非传统的地方,那里有无穷无尽的可能性,你可以把衣服放在一起,真正地表达你自己。

Writers get embarrassed sometimes in talking about how much fun writing can be, but drafting is often really enjoyable. Often, you're tumbling in the dark, and you don't know where the story is going to lead.

作家在谈论写作的乐趣时,有时会感到尴尬,但起草往往是真正令人愉快的。通常,你在黑暗中跌跌撞撞,你不知道故事的走向。

The role of a writer is not to say, what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

作家的角色不是说我们都能说什么,而是我们不能说什么。

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.

他们都知道我的名字,但是没有人听过音乐——我看起来不一样。

Let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

我们相爱,不要只在言语和言语上,总要在行为和诚实上。