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Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

  • -- Tobias Wolff 托比亚斯·沃尔夫

当然，这就是为什么你想成为一名作家——因为你有这样做的自由，但一旦你有了自由，你也有义务去做。

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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

也许那些热爱人类的人的使命就是让人们嘲笑真理，让真理发笑，因为唯一的真理在于学会把自己从对真理的疯狂激情中解放出来。

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The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.

我从来没有谈过私事。我永远不会。这是被禁止的。我的工作是公开的。但就是这样。当你不工作的时候，你没有义务成为公众人物。

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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

语言不能很好地表达思想。它们总是在表达出来之后立刻变得有些不同，有些扭曲，有些愚蠢。

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My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

我的工作是写作。我是拿薪水的。你上次听到有人挑战医生从癌症中赚钱是什么时候?

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Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

奴役一个人的自由和全世界的自由都处于危险之中。

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The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.

这个国家对她的辩护人的义务和这种辩护本身一样古老。

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