It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

  • -- George Henry Lewes 乔治·亨利·路易斯

不幸的是,许多不真诚的文学和艺术,仅仅是为了达到目的而进行的,是通过欺骗公众而成功的。

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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

文学史上最著名的,也是最难理解的事实之一是,至少在西欧文学中,散文式小说很晚才出现,而在两种伟大的古典语言中,我们所谓的散文式小说却相对缺乏。

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

在这样的时期建立一家公司的好消息是,真正成功的公司将会非常强大和有弹性。

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

未来成功地创造了一个合适的过去,这难道不令人惊讶吗?

A hundred "no's" are less painful than one insincere "yes."

一百个“不”比一个不真诚的“是”更让人痛苦。

Literature is the question minus the answer.

文学就是问题减去答案。