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The wise writer, I think, writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
我认为，聪明的作家是为他那一代的青年、下一代的批评家和后世的老师们写作的。
— F. Scott Fitzgerald F.斯科特·菲茨杰拉德
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更多好句 ↗You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
你必须用其他理论来检验你的假设。在复杂的情况下，确定性是非常危险的。
Richard Holbrooke
霍尔布鲁克
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
科学与控制无关。它是在面对比我们最新的理论更丰富、更微妙的东西时，培养一种永久的惊奇状态。这是尊重，而不是掌握。
Richard Powers
理查德·鲍尔斯
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
书籍就像胶片上的显影液。也就是说，他们把你不知道你知道的东西带入意识。
Clifton Fadiman
克利夫顿·费迪曼
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
写作是为了被理解，说话是为了被倾听，阅读是为了成长。
Lawrence Clark Powell
劳伦斯·克拉克·鲍威尔
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
一个人写作的原因并不是他想说什么。他写作是因为他有话要说。
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F.斯科特·菲茨杰拉德
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
当然，现在是时候研究语言的意义和事物的本质，并得出一些简单的事实，这些事实不是根据有学问的权威的格言而得到的，而是根据我们对周围发生的事情的仔细观察而得到的。
Frances Wright
弗朗西丝·莱特