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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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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

最重要的事情往往是最难说出口的。它们是你感到羞耻的东西，因为语言会减少你的感觉——当你脑海中永恒的东西被拿出来的时候，它们只会缩小到活生生的大小。

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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

看着一大群朋友和我自己的母亲在相当短的时间内相继离世，我确信纯粹的唯物主义“解释”我们神秘的人类存在根本行不通——在智力层面上。

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Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

原始人类和人类的进化经历了数百万年而不是数十亿年，但随着语言的出现，时间和变化速度进一步加快。

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I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.

我不想让它成为一辈子的事情。我不相信法定期限的限制，但如果人们愿意，他们可以限制自己，这就是我决定做的。

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If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.

如果说健身房里有一个永恒的主题，那就是在拳击场上的艰苦训练。不合适的就不能生存。

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First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

首先，写作充其量——当然是小说写作——我认为越来越多的写作是有魔力的。

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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

当评论家说我是通俗小说的大师时，我感到畏缩。什么是不受欢迎的小说?

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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

我花了四年时间才画得像拉斐尔，却花了一辈子时间才画得像个孩子。

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There's no abiding success without commitment.

没有承诺就没有持久的成功。

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A public is a necessary fiction.

公众是必要的虚构。

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