You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

  • -- Carlisle Floyd 卡莱尔·弗洛伊德

你不可能预测什么会持续多久。但是,一旦你尝试写作多年,你就注定要失败。

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In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.

在个别工业中,妇女劳工发挥重要作用,任何提倡提高工资、缩短工作时间等的运动,从一开始就不会因为没有组织的女工的态度而注定失败。

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

如果你写的是体裁小说,你就得遵守规则,而且你必须遵守规则,因为读者是这样期望的。

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

人们发现,每个时代都必须写自己的书;或者更确切地说,每一代都是为了下一代的成功。

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

你注定要做出选择。这就是人生最大的悖论。