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A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

  • -- Lynn Abbey 李恩·阿贝

一个优秀的短篇小说作家有一种本能，就是在足够的背景下勾勒出一个特定的故事。

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I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.

我认为小说在总体上不太擅长支持或反对事物——一个短篇小说所能提出的修辞论点，只有通过增加特定的细节才能实现，而这些细节的特殊性使得故事得出的任何结论在更广泛的应用中都是无效的。

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I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

我认为，在几乎所有的人身上，都埋藏着一种深刻的部落本能，这种本能使我们很容易被激起爱国热情。

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I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

我仍然偶尔会写短篇小说，偶尔也会看小说，但这并不是我想做的。

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

在艺术和爱情中，本能就足够了。

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