约翰•欧文语录
Everything’s safer than love.
一切都比爱情安全。
——约翰•欧文 《新罕布什尔旅馆》
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
你必须择善固执、终生不渝。
——约翰•欧文 《新罕布什尔旅馆》
In this dirty-minded world you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore, or fast on your way to becoming one or the other. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me.
在这个满是下作念头的世界上,你要么是某人的老婆,要么是某人的婊子——要么就在即将成为两者之一的路上。万一上述类别都不适用于你,所有人都会设法让你以为一定是自己有什么地方不对劲。可是呢,她想,我一点也没有不对劲。
——约翰•欧文 《盖普眼中的世界》
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
如果你有幸找到自己喜欢的生活方式,你就得有过这种生活的勇气。
——约翰•欧文 《盖普眼中的世界》
If you are careful, if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.
如果你细心,如果你准备好了食材,不投机取巧,通常可以烧出好菜来。有时候,这道菜就是一整天里唯一没白费力气的东西。而写作,我发现,即使你找对了材料,花了大量时间和心思,还是会一无所获。爱情也一样。因此,煮饭能让努力的人不至于因为一无所获而发疯。
——约翰•欧文 《盖普眼中的世界》
The consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.
性的后果往往比性行为本身更令人难忘。
——约翰•欧文 《独居的一年》
当你撒谎时,会觉得自己在欺骗命运——不仅是自己的命运,也是所有人的命运。
——约翰•欧文《苹果酒屋的规则》
我们一生中,总会因为一个重要的人突然离开,而忽然成长。
——约翰•欧文《苹果酒屋的规则》
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