I learned about their tawdry dreams, their simple hopes, their home lives their fear of feeling anything deeply, Their sex problems, their husbands.

我很清楚她们的思想，充斥着，俗不可耐的梦想，平凡的生活，她们的家庭,以及对高深东西的抵触，对待性的态度，她们的丈夫。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We have to dream beyond the day-to-day living.

梦想必须超越我们日复一日的生活。

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