The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

写作是一种自由的行为，但也是一种责任。

I'm the worst thing since Elvis Presley to do black music so selfishly.