菲利普·羅斯
美國文學(xué)的巨匠
You build your life around what you fear, and then you spend your life being afraid.
你圍繞你所恐懼的事物建立生活，然后你的一生都在恐懼中度過。
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
對跑步的癡迷實(shí)際上是對更多生活潛力的癡迷。
A writer is someone who pays attention to the world.
作家就是關(guān)注世界的人。
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.
事實(shí)上，無論如何，正確理解他人并非生活的全部。誤解才是生活，誤解、誤解、再誤解，然后經(jīng)過仔細(xì)的重新考慮，再次誤解。
Literature isn’t a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority of a voice, not the purity of a soul.
文學(xué)不是一場道德選美比賽。它的力量來自聲音的權(quán)威，而非靈魂的純潔。
The truth is always a compound of two half-truths.
真相總是由兩個(gè)半真半假的東西組成。
The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.'
每個(gè)人都想要的唯一執(zhí)念：'愛'。
The writer's life is a life of sentences.
The terror of art is that you don't know where it will take you.
藝術(shù)的可怕之處在于你不知道它會(huì)把你帶向何方。
You build your life around what happens to you.
你圍繞發(fā)生在自己身上的事情構(gòu)建生活。
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway.