菲利普·羅斯
美國文學(xué)的巨匠
作家的生活是一種孤獨的生活。
Literature is the art of the possible.
文學(xué)是可能的藝術(shù)。
The best reader is the writer who reads his own work.
最好的讀者是閱讀自己作品的作家。
The great thing about fiction is that it makes everything interesting.
小說的偉大之處在于它讓一切變得有趣。
I don’t write for the reader; I write for myself.
我不是為讀者寫作；我是為自己寫作。
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
唯一讓生活成為可能的，是永久且難以忍受的不確定性；不知道接下來會發(fā)生什么。
The writer’s job is to tell the truth.
作家的職責(zé)是講述真相。
The past is the past, and that’s where it belongs.
過去就是過去，它屬于那里。
The truth is that in America, the Jew is a figment of the Christian imagination.
在美國，猶太人其實是基督教想象的產(chǎn)物。
You build your life around the fact that you are going to die, and then you don’t die.
你圍繞著自己終將死亡的事實構(gòu)建生活，然后你沒有死。
The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole. The Platonic union of souls.