Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

  • -- John Milton 约翰·米尔顿

真理从来不会来到这个世界上,而是像一个私生子一样,带着她出生的那个人的耻辱来到这个世界上。

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As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

至于建议,那将是我的下一本书,我的下一个收藏。我当然不喜欢指导别人,但我只是凭感觉说。这和建议是一样的,不是吗?

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

我认为写文学作品应该给人带来乐趣。还应该讲些什么呢?它不是核物理。它必须给人带来快乐,否则就一文不值。

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

当谈到家务时,没有一本家政书籍能告诉你如何开始。也许我是说为什么。

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

无论他们的未来如何,在他们生命的开端,人们都在寻求对人的本性和生命潜力的崇高愿景。

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

对于一个不愿采取理性态度的人来说,任何理性的论点都不会产生理性的效果。

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

首先,文学只指它自己,文学理论。