The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

  • -- George Steiner 斯坦纳

绝大多数的传记都是在家庭痉挛和遗忘之间的灰色过渡。

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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

总的来说,传记和自传比过去二十年的小说更令人印象深刻,但其中那些怪异的畅销书最不可能经受住时间的考验。

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

我认为我们必须注意的一件事是人类声称他们知道上帝是如何运作的。

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

关于我的传记主题,我总是有大量的资料。

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

不是所有的人的灵魂都是神圣的,只有虔诚的人才是神圣的。