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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

  • -- William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳

如果一个作家不得不抢劫他的母亲，他不会犹豫:“希腊瓮上的颂歌”比任何数量的老妇人都值钱。

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I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

我甚至没有学习最新的词典中所建立的定义。我不是编字典的。我是一个词典编纂者不得不应付的人。我是语言发展的活生生的证据。

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Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.

有才能的人对语言的处理和使用赋予语言价值，与其说是通过创新，不如说是通过提供更有活力和更多样化的服务，通过拉伸和弯曲语言。

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Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

每当你的写作有问题时，就怀疑你的思维有问题。

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Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

写一首简单的旋律可能需要几周的时间，但我很喜欢它。

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