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That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

  • -- George Saunders 山德斯

对我来说，这似乎就是“小说”的定义:一个尚未找到简洁方式的故事。

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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

一位专家是什么?我在什么地方读到过，一个人知道的越多，他知道的越多，他不知道的越多。所以我想，专家的一个定义是，他不会大声承认自己对某一学科的了解足够多，以至于知道自己实际上不知道多少。

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The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.

把一本书叫做小说的麻烦在于，我并不是一直在写同一本书，但是我的兴趣是有连续性的，所以当我开始写一本书的时候，如果我把它叫做“小说”，它就把它和其他的书分开了。

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I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

我浪费了许多年的时间来写作，然后非常自豪地说:“现在……我的小说!很快就会变成一个短篇故事，然后变成一段。

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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

当我成为国王时，他们不仅有面包和住所，而且还有书本上的教导，因为在思想饥饿的地方，饱腹是没有什么价值的。

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All my friends are in my books.

我所有的朋友都在我的书里。

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