Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

  • -- Logan Pearsall Smith 洛根·皮尔索尔·史密斯

每一个作家,无论多么谦虚,都把一种最令人发指的虚荣心像疯子一样锁在他胸间的软垫里。

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When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do - well, that's memoirs.

当你放下你本应该做的好事,把你做过的坏事抛诸脑后——好吧,这就是回忆录。

Thought flies and words go on foot.

思想飞,言语走。