"A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him."
作家就是花多年耐心探索内心第二个自我的人。
"The best way to forget something is to remember it."
忘记某事最好的方式就是记住它。
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."
人生是一场海难，但我们别忘了在救生艇上歌唱。
"Memory is the diary we all carry about with us."
记忆是我们随身携带的日记。
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
世界上充满了显而易见却无人注意的事物。
"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
写作是唯一一个不赚钱也不会被人嘲笑的职业。
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
唯一让生活成为可能的，是永久且难以忍受的不确定性——不知道接下来会发生什么。
"A novel is a long piece of prose with something wrong with it."
"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."
我们都有自己的时间机器。带我们回去的叫回忆，带我们前行的叫梦想。
"The past is always tense, the future perfect."
过去永远是紧张的，未来才是完美的。
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