Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

  • -- Irwin Shaw 欧文·肖

每个小说家都有不同的目的,而且常常是几个相互矛盾的目的。

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Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

如果一个人不坚定地追求崇高或美好的目标,上帝不会为他留下任何美好或崇高的东西。目标是成功的永恒条件。

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

青春是人生所有欢乐的季节;但往往只看它希望什么,而不看它得到了什么,或它逃避了什么。

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things

公众的期望和个人的健康是两码事

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

最后一个诱惑是最大的背叛:以错误的理由做正确的事。

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

很多时候,随便你怎么说,无赖只不过是傻瓜。