Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

  • -- Laurence Sterne 劳伦斯·斯特恩

写作,如果管理得当(你可以肯定的是,我认为我的管理得当),只是交谈的另一个名字。

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I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.

我曾在冷战期间的某个地方写道,我有时希望铁幕比现在高得多,这样你就能看到,在没有交流的情况下,双方的科学发展是否平行。在这种情况下,它当然不是。

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

美与真也许是优秀作品的特质,但如果作者有意追求真理,他很可能会发现他所触及的只是说教。