I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

  • -- David Foster Wallace 大卫·福斯特·华莱士

我经常认为我可以在自己和其他年轻作家身上看到这一点,这种对取悦他人的绝望渴望,加上对读者的敌意。

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As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, "This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever."

作为一个年轻的演员,在我真正了解自己之前,人们试图定义我是谁。但我仍然记得当时的想法:“这是我喜欢做的事情,我希望我能永远这样做。”

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

回顾我的自由主义政治信仰时,我有一种奇怪的感觉——这是另一种自我参与的方式——因为某种我无法从逻辑上描述的优越感而奖励自己。

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

永远不要认为敌人敌意的减弱意味着他们已经被征服了。这只是意味着一个国家不再构成威胁。

There was hostility surrounding doing my job.

人们对我的工作怀有敌意。