I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

  • -- Manuel Puig 曼努埃尔·普伊格

我不是那种已经写了很多书的学术研究的作家。

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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

有一个学术传统叫做“最后一课”。假设,如果你知道自己就要死了,而你还有最后一堂课,你会对你的学生说什么?对我来说,房间里有一头大象。房间里的大象,对我来说,这不是假设。

I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl be not being able to write about it.

我从小就知道什么是死亡。我唯一的遗憾是不能把它写下来。

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

这个过程并没有改变,但是作者已经发展了。我仍然每天早上起床去上班。

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

如果我是学术机构的一员,我就可以做其他的实验。