Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

语言是思想的母亲,而不是思想的使女;语言会告诉你一些你从未想过或感觉到的事情。

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I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.

我把写小说比作一场旅行,带着一些我将要到达的目的地的概念,但不是整个画面——随着旅程的进行,它会逐渐显现为一系列的启示。

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.

任何一个审查员都是傻瓜。他是个审查员这一事实就说明了这一点。