I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

  • -- Fred Allen 弗雷德·艾伦

我不明白为什么一个人要花一年的时间来写小说,而他却可以轻易地花几美元买到一本。

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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.

有时候,文学作品中有一种势利感,这些人并不真正理解,但在很多方面,他们比文人更能理解。在他们理解和了解的背景下有一种文化。他们进入了更深的层次。

I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players.

我不是一个自私的球员,但我们必须更多地移动球,我们必须更长远地看待团队比赛,因为我们有足够的天赋来使用不同的球员。

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

我们今年和去年是不一样的人了;我们爱的人也不是。如果我们,改变,继续爱一个改变了的人,这是一个快乐的机会。

To understand everything makes one very indulgent.

理解一切使人非常放纵。