Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

  • -- Rebecca West 丽贝卡·韦斯特

任何一个坐下来思考有多少人知道他或她恋爱的真实情况的人,都能看出写传记有多难。

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The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

事实上,在我十几岁的时候,我就成为了一名创作型歌手,因为这是唯一能保证地球上有人会唱我写的歌的方法。从那时起,我几乎在任何地方演出:摇滚俱乐部、音乐厅、竞技场、电视。

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

一个受过教育的人是这样的人:他知道,事实往往是,信息至多是不完整的,而且往往是错误的、误导人的、虚构的、虚假的——完全是错误的。

I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.

我喜欢食物,觉得这是应该享受的东西。我想吃什么就吃什么。我只是不吃得太多。

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

一个人的脸就是他的自传。女人的脸是她的小说作品。

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

如果我不写诗,我就会一直洗手。

I had lost faith in biography.

我对传记失去了信心。