As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

  • -- Seamus Heaney 西默斯·希尼

作为作家和读者,作为罪人和公民,我们的现实主义和审美意识使我们不敢相信积极的音符。

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There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

有些作家说他们没有社会责任,除了写一本好书,但这并不能满足我。

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

面对现实的本来面目,而不是你想要的样子。

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

现实主义是惩罚。概率怀疑主义更糟。

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

我喜欢的作家。我所有最好的朋友都是作家。