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When an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

当一个作家还活着的时候，我们通过他最差的作品来评价他的力量;当他死后，我们用他最好的方式来评价他。

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There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

没有什么比一个作家站在观众面前读他的作品更令人苦恼或厌倦的了。

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

作家写一本书是为了忘记一本书，而读者读一本书是为了记住它。

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You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.

你可以教一个关心写专栏的人，但你不能教一个写专栏的人去关心。

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Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!

有时候，我们脑子里的东西比书里或电影里的任何东西都要糟糕得多!!

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