I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

  • -- Truman Capote 杜鲁门·卡波特

我的想法是做一个真正严肃的大工程——就像一本小说一样,只有一点不同:它的每一个字从头到尾都是真实的。

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Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.

就像河口附近的水,在它的最终形态中,主要由许多支流组成一样,一个思想,在它的最终形态中,主要由后来的补充组成。

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

因此,我一直着迷于这样一个想法,即复杂性可以来自于这样的简单。

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

在监狱里,那些被扣留和拒绝给囚犯的东西正是他最想要的。

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

洋葱切得多精确并不重要,只要咀嚼它的人很开心。