There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

  • -- Margaret Mahy 玛格丽特·梅喜

当然,也有一些时候,我自己的日常生活似乎在退缩,所以故事的生活可以接管我。这就是为什么作家经常需要空间和时间,这样他或她就可以放弃平凡的生活,与角色“生活”在一起。

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When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'

当你还是个孩子的时候,你有一种坚不可摧的感觉。你甚至没有想到死亡。但随着时间的推移,你会意识到,‘如果我想继续生存,最好把这个或那个删掉。’

That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.

这就是我最终离开学校的原因——因为这需要很多时间,而且这是一个非常棒的主意。我想我会后悔没有全力实施这个想法。看来我们能做点什么。

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

事实上,每一个思想家,每一个哲学家,当他因为实际的需要而被迫放弃他片面的知识工作的时候,就立即回到人类的一般观点上来。

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

属灵的回应往往过于简单:我们离弃神,或因神离弃我们而责备神。