Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

  • -- Eudora Welty 韦尔蒂

写小说使我对人的一生中未知的东西产生了一种持久的敬意,让我有了一种去哪里寻找线索、如何追随、如何联系的感觉,在错综复杂的世界中找到一条清晰的线。

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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

人的本性中有一种卑鄙的东西,它喜欢去想邪恶的事情,它愿意倾听,随时欢迎别人的诽谤,它对善良、伟大和好事的嫉妒。

After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.

在经历了一辈子的减肥和增肥之后,我终于明白了。不管你怎么减肥,都可以归结为一个简单的公式:卡路里的摄入,卡路里的消耗。

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

希望意味着每时每刻都准备好迎接那些尚未诞生的东西,如果我们的一生中没有诞生,我们也不会绝望。

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

只有在纸上,人类才能获得荣耀、美丽、真理、知识、美德和永恒的爱。

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

我无法停止写作,这是一种疯狂。

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

你个性很好,但不适合人类。

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

快乐的孩子长大后似乎不会成为作家。

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

当我死后,我将把我的身体留给科幻小说。

There's no abiding success without commitment.

没有承诺就没有持久的成功。