If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

  • -- Joyce Carol Oates 乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨

如果你是一名作家,你会把自己置身于一堵沉默的墙后,无论你在做什么,开车、散步还是做家务,你都可以写作,因为你有这样的空间。

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Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

家务劳动是唯一一项男人可以一直不称职的活动,因为人们认为他们在其他方面都很能干。

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

根本没有必要做任何家务。头四年过去了,情况并没有变得更糟。

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

一个作家能做的最有独创性的事情就是像他自己一样写作。这也是他最困难的任务。

He claimed his modest share of the general foolishness of the human race.

他声称自己对人类普遍的愚蠢行为负有一定的责任。