Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

把你的作文通读一遍,当你遇到一篇你认为特别好的文章时,把它删掉。

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

当人们谈论写作、说话或思考的自由时,我只能笑。从来没有这样的东西存在过。现在不存在这样的东西;但我希望它会存在。但这一定是在你我不再写信和说话之后的几百年以后了。

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money....

我们出版只是为了满足我们对名望的渴望;没有其他动机,除了更卑鄙的赚钱动机……

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

当我受到鼓舞的时候,我就会写作,我每天早上9点就会受到鼓舞。

I've put my genius into my life; I've only put my talent into my works.

我把我的天赋融入我的生活;我只是把我的才能用在我的工作上。