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There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

  • -- Mason Cooley 梅森·库利

阅读、思考和交谈有不同的规则。写作融合了这三者。

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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

除了一些简单的原则外，我认为英语散文的声音和节奏很重要，作家和读者都不应该太相信规则，而应该相信自己的耳朵。

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

没能读到好书，既削弱了我们的视野，也强化了我们最致命的倾向——即相信此时此地就是一切。

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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

书是终极的哑巴:把它们放下，它们会永远等你;关注他们，他们也会爱你。

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I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

我热爱写作，不知道为什么写作被认为是如此困难、痛苦的职业。

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Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

亲爱的，别跟我谈规则。无论我呆在哪里，我都要制定该死的规则。

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Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

难道只有通过做梦或写作，我才能知道我在想什么吗?

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I made a couple bad pitches, but I'll take this and build off it.

我投了几个很差的球，但我会把这个球补上。

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Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

逻辑教的是表达规则，而不是思考规则。

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