There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths, and the lesser ones, who can only give you themselves.

  • -- Clifton Fadiman 克利夫顿·费迪曼

世界上有两种作家,一种伟大的作家能给你真理,另一种不伟大的作家只能给你自己。

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I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

我不认为,一般来说,人们成为作家是因为他们是班里非常优秀、非常酷、非常有吸引力的孩子。我会很诚实。这是我们对那些比我们好看得多、受欢迎得多的人的报复。我想我有点像那样。

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

我们有一种倾向,认为每个人都是白痴,每个人只是在做一些白痴的事情,而这个世界是由一群不那么神秘的白痴控制的。我想这是有道理的,但也不是真的。

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

人生最大的安慰是说出自己的想法。

Writers should provoke disagreement.

作家应该挑起分歧。