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If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

  • -- Richard Yates 理查德·耶茨

如果你到四十岁还没有写小说，你永远也写不出来!

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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

人们对老小说最常见的两种指责是，它让人感到邪恶地愉悦，它没有教给人们任何东西，但在人们发现这部小说既适合于正当使用，又适合于娱乐之前，这两种指责就已经站不住脚了。

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We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.

我们都渴望生活中有一段时间，事情变得简单。即使它们不一定更简单，后见之明也会让它们看起来简单得多。但事实并非如此。

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I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

我确实有一个家庭，显然我花了尽可能多的时间和他们在一起。尽管当我和家人在一起的时候，我的思想倾向于棒球。

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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

我继续写那些糟糕的剧本，幸运的是，没有人能写出这样的剧本，就像没有人出版我早期的小说一样。

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