Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

  • -- Emil Cioran 萧沆

只有当你要在书中说出你永远不敢对任何人吐露的事情时,你才会写书。

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The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

神的智慧赐给我们祷告,不是要我们得到地上美好的事物,而是要我们学会不需要它们而去做;不是作为我们逃避罪恶的手段,而是作为我们变得强大以面对罪恶的手段。

That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

这是典型的作家所做的;我们大多数时间只是坐在那里抱怨。事情进展得越好,他们的抱怨就越多。

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

当作家死后,他们变成了书,这毕竟是一个不错的化身。

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

改变生活的想法总是通过书籍来实现。

You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

你绝不能扔掉值钱的东西。

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

我最喜欢为三年级和四年级的学生写作。