I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

  • -- Edna O'Brien 埃德娜·奥布赖恩

我很执着,也很勤奋。此外,你最活跃和最有意识的时候是在童年时期,一个人试图重新获得那种高度的意识。

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AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

艾滋病之所以在我们的意识中占据如此大的比重,是因为它所代表的意义。这似乎正是特权阶层认为等待他们的所有灾难的典型。

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

当我们还是孩子的时候,我们很感激那些在圣诞节给我们装满袜子的人。为什么我们不感谢上帝让我们的长统袜充满双腿呢?

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

可以说,没有一个艺术家是成熟的:如果他摆脱了童年的观念,他就不再是一个艺术家。

Bringing to light what had been hidden in darkness should not overwhelm you, but Educate you.

把隐藏在黑暗中的东西显露出来,不应该压倒你,而应该教育你。

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

在这个行业里,要想变得真正优秀需要时间,到那个时候,你就落伍了。

I didn't have a childhood.

我没有童年。