There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

在文学上还有一个伟大的发现,那就是按文学工作者不写作的数量支付报酬。

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What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

我要写的是我要说的最后一句话。我想说,文学是我们唯一拥有的意识,它作为意识的角色必须告诉我们,我们有能力理解核能的可怕危险。

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

我希望后代对我的评价是仁慈的,不仅对我所解释的事情,而且对那些我故意省略的事情,以便留给别人去发现的乐趣。

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

在宇航员队伍中,每个人的共同之处不是性别或种族背景,而是动机、毅力和渴望——参与探索之旅的渴望。

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

你拥有的唯一一样东西是别人没有的,那就是你自己。你的声音,你的思想,你的故事,你的愿景。所以,写作、画画、建造、玩耍、跳舞,只有你才能这样生活。

their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

他们的形体移动像鹳,像大鸟。他们走近铁丝网,把脸靠在上面。他们的手指勾住了网。

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

所有糟糕的文学作品都建立在不完善的洞察力或模仿的基础上,而模仿可以被定义为“二手的”。

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

对我来说,美妙的旋律盖过美妙的即兴曲,就是这一切的秘密。

But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.

但我现在不怎么写了,因为太痛苦了。