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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

  • -- George Orwell 乔治·奥威尔

长时间、不分青红皂白地读书是一项特别吃力不讨好、令人恼火和筋疲力尽的工作。它不仅包括赞美垃圾，还包括不断地对那些没有任何自然感觉的书做出反应。

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I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

我很早就发现了评论。它们大多是悲伤的人在糟糕的下午写的。这可能就是为什么我没有一些作家那么愤怒的原因，他们是如此自恋，他们认为每一篇评论的每一行，甚至是一个深思熟虑的评论，都是重大的背叛。

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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.

当读者进入一本诗集，他或她进入一个世界，在那里梦想把过去变成适用于现在的知识，在那里幻想把现在塑造成未来的非凡可能性。

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For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

对我来说，写作和表演都来自同一个地方，一种想要回顾和连接某些东西的冲动。对我来说，它们更相似而不是不同。

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He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

他经常嫉妒那些没有读过他最喜欢的书的人。他们面前有这样的幸福。

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