If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.

  • -- Roddy Doyle 罗迪·道尔

如果你是一个作家,你在家里,这意味着你失去了联系。你必须找借口出去看看世界是如何变化的。

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I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

我的选举真的很艰难。如果你有一个非常艰难的选举,而且是在劳动节之后,你会去北卡罗来纳参加一些派对,与人握手,还是会呆在家里,尽你所能地努力工作,说服密苏里人他们应该重新雇用你?

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.

人是一种手段而不是目的,他是达到经济或政治目的的一种手段,而经济或政治目的本身并不是真正的目的,而是达到其他目的的手段,而这些目的反过来又是手段,如此无穷。

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

成为一名囚犯意味着被定义为一个群体的一员,在这个群体中,可以对你做什么,可以对你做什么被视为虐待,这些规则作为你的地位定义的一部分被减少了。

A man lives long in his native place.

一个人在他的故乡住得久。