Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

  • -- Augusten Burroughs 奥古斯丁·巴勒斯

在我成为作家之前,我绝对是一个读者,当我读回忆录时,我真的希望它是真实的。

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The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.

读过这些回忆录的人会发现,在我的眼前,我从来没有一个固定的目标,我的系统,如果可以称为一个系统的话,就是随波逐流,随波逐流。

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

每一个向世界展示了通向美、通向真正文化之路的人,都是一个叛逆者,一个没有爱国主义、没有家园的“普世”者,他发现自己的人民无处不在。

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

如果他们不读书,如果他们不爱读书;如果他们不强迫自己阅读,我不认为他们是真正的作家。

When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.

当一本新书出版或以任何形式出现时,我就去读它。

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

真正的慈善是希望对他人有用而不考虑回报。