Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

  • -- V. S. Naipaul V.S.奈保尔

在任何特定的时刻,我身体里的任何额外部分都没有完全形成。我几乎没有意识到;它等待着下一本书。在实际写作过程中,如果幸运的话,它会出现在我的脑海中,让我大吃一惊。

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I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.

我是在那个时候长大的,那时音乐对我来说真的是音乐。这并不是说要谈论一个女人,并给她们取一个贬损的名字或类似的东西。那是真正的音乐。

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

几乎没有一代人想要得到上一代人的全部,他们只想得到最好的部分。

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

人类甚至认不出自己创造的恶魔。