After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

  • -- George Ade 乔治·艾迪

在被众多出版商拒绝后,他决定为子孙后代写作。

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When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

当我决定成为一名音乐家时,我认为这将是一种利润更少、金钱更少的方式。我放弃了赚很多钱的想法。这是我喜欢做的。无论如何我都会这么做的。如果我必须在塔可钟餐厅工作,我晚上还会出去试着演奏音乐。

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return.

一旦你尝到了飞翔的滋味,你将永远昂首阔步地走在地球上,因为你曾经在那里,你将永远渴望回到那里。

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

我并不是想让自己听起来像变聪明了,但很高兴认识到你的世界并不是整个世界。

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

这是子孙后代的特权,使那些因追求伟大而分裂了整个时代的对手之间的事情变得正确。

The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.

出版商是一个中间人,他指挥着整个行业的节奏;他这么做是因为他付了钱。

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

有些人有必要变得刻薄,就好像他们在锻炼一种能力,而这种能力他们从小就不得不部分忽视。

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

我写作的目的是为了获得一种放松的感觉,达到奶牛在挤奶时享受的功能。

My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.

我的背在怀孕后就被毁了。我几乎要做手术,直到我做普拉提和重建我的身体。

I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.

我做事有条不紊,几乎到了强迫症的程度。我一直擅长同时处理多项任务。

It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.

真正的关键是在棒球和足球之间做出选择。足球赢了,因为我更喜欢它。

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

没有什么比演出前把舞台拆了更糟糕的了,我什么都不是。

Sometimes it's not the person you miss, It's the feeling you had when you were with them.

有时候,不是你想念的那个人,而是你和他们在一起时的感觉。

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

写作在很大程度上是一个游乐场——一个艺术游乐场。这是我做的最有趣的事情。

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

当我们为后代做打算时,我们应该记住美德不是遗传的。

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

我喜欢用第一人称写作,因为我喜欢成为我所写的角色。

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

花是单一的,不必嫉妒荆棘众多。

You can't be yourself in this world without being labeled.

在这个世界上,如果没有标签,你就不能做你自己。

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

国家越腐败,法律就越多。

I trust god with my life after all, he gave it to me.

我用我的生命相信上帝,毕竟他给了我生命。

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

我从来没有决定要开始唱歌,成为一名歌手。

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

是的,很难写。但不这么做更难。