There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

  • -- John Major 约翰少校

关于黑色星期三的传说比希腊人创造的还多。

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I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

我坚决反对写学术小说。我一直认为,学术小说已经够多了,而且大多数都不好。他们中的大多数人都是有自我意识的和痛苦的,他们的工作是那些想要解决怨恨的人的工作。

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

所有这些,所有这些绘画的物理方面都让我非常兴奋。你可以画一幅黑白的画。我的意思是所有的事情,不管你是否请求许可,一定要给你许可。

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

导演用双手捧着我的脸,让我给他看我的牙齿,就像给一匹马看一样。这件事发生在一个星期三,到了下一个星期一,我开始拍摄。

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.

作家的妻子永远无法理解的是,当作家凝视窗外时,他正在工作。

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

我出生在底特律,一个全是黑人的社区。