As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

  • -- Iain Banks 伊恩·班克斯

作为一名作家,你可以玩,你可以改变时间,你可以想出聪明的台词和你希望自己能想到的聪明的反击。

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I do regret, as I described in my book, the time that I shaved off half of my eyebrows thinking that I could draw them in better - and they would grow back anyway.

正如我在书中所描述的那样,我真的很后悔,当时我剃掉了一半眉毛,以为自己能把眉毛画得更好——结果眉毛又长回来了。

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

一个时代的激烈争论在另一个时代看来是毫无结果的,因为知识既能改变我们所寻求的,也能改变我们所发现的。

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

我原以为我能游得更快,也会游得更快。

Thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else.

思想会比其他任何东西都留下更深的伤疤。

Use your time as best you can, keeping the hoe and oxen ready.

尽可能地利用你的时间,准备好锄头和牛。

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

爱不是当它改变时才改变的爱。

Be smart enough to hold on. Be brave enough to let go.

聪明点,坚持住。勇敢地放手。

If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.

如果我是亿万富翁,我就会精打细算。