All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

  • -- Paul Auster 保罗·奥斯特

我想做的就是写作——在那个时候,诗歌和散文也是。我想我的野心只是简单地赚钱,尽我所能以一种谦虚的方式来维持自己的生活,我不需要太多,我当时还没有结婚,没有孩子。

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I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

我认为,一个政治家的旅程从想要一直取悦所有的人,到一个最终意识到他的责任是决定的政治领导人。当他决定的时候,他会分裂。

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

优雅地变老被认为意味着尽量不去隐藏时间的流逝,只是看着一个残骸。别担心,姑娘们,看起来像个废物,事情就是这样。