That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

  • -- Charles Caleb Colton 英国作家科尔顿

那位作家做得最多,他给读者的知识最多,花的时间最少。

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What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.

真正有趣的是,在那个时代,很多具有煽动性的词汇现在看起来几乎是无害的、可笑的,因为它们有一种古老的特质。

All these older kids here, and I'm the only one from a town that's so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you'd run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there.

这里所有的大孩子,我是唯一一个来自这么小的城镇的孩子,如果每个人同时呼吸,你就会缺氧。伙计,那里什么都没有。

Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

当然,这就是为什么你想成为一名作家——因为你有这样做的自由,但一旦你有了自由,你也有义务去做。

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

天赋是一个水龙头。当它打开时,人们必须写。灵感是诗人为了显示自己的重要性而发明的一场闹剧。