The author was a guy his own age who had come up the hard way and was now a celebrity in the literary world.
作者是个和他同样年纪的人，出身也是很苦的，而现在却成了文艺界的名流。
He had come up the hard way and had nothing in particular except that he cared hardly anything of the past but had a sharp eye for the future.
他历经磨难，无特别之处，对过去的一切不大放在心上，却对未来格外敏锐。
It's really hard to be original these days, so the easiest way to come up with new stuff is to mix things that already exist.
现今原创极为困难，因此最容易的办法就是把现成的东西组合在一起，拿出一个新玩意。
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