There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

  • -- Anne Stevenson 安妮·史蒂文森

错误的文学批评太多了。这就是为什么我不可能作为一个学者生存下来。

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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

一个酒鬼在阴沟里正是他应该呆的地方,这是根据事情的发展趋势而定的。大自然给他安排了一个衰微和解体的过程,通过这个过程,她除去了那些无用的东西。

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

多年后,当我回首往事时,我第一次体验到的学术友谊让我微笑。但是,我的熟人圈子逐渐扩大了,因此自然而然地就产生了新的友谊。

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

我们让自己的无知占据上风,让自己认为我们可以独自生存,独自生活在小块土地上,独自生活在群体中,独自生活在种族中,甚至独自生活在性别中。

I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

我认为没有人会否认女生作为一个群体在学业上是优秀的。