A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.

  • -- Chaim Potok 小说家波图克

一个非小说作家在他或她面前有一个人物的形状,并不断完善它。一部非小说作品并不像小说作品那么难写,但它最终并没有那么令人满意。

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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

我们称失去父亲的人为孤儿;一个失去妻子的鳏夫。但是,这个人知道失去朋友的巨大痛苦,我们用什么名字称呼他呢?在这里,每一种语言都是沉默的,在无能为力中保持着平静。

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

如果你想要达到目标,就会遇到障碍。我有他们。每个人都有过。但障碍并不能阻止你。如果你遇到一堵墙,不要转身放弃。想办法爬上去,穿过它,或者绕过它。

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment. It's not about trying to force any particular style within the parameters - and the parameters we play in are pretty large!

是的,这更像是玩你认为合适的游戏。它不是试图在参数中强制任何特定的样式——我们使用的参数非常大!

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

因为在人类变化和进步的伟大空间里,有一段短暂的时间,某些人类的普遍目标在他身上得到了令人满意的体现。

I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

我想要听到另一种观点,我不希望女孩们被拆穿衣服,变得漂亮而沉默。

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

你解释它是怎么发生的,并且尽你所能找出它是怎么发生的。