Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

  • -- Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔·理查森

需要可以被称为发明之母,但灾难是对正直的考验。

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A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

我思考的关键一直是近乎狂热地相信我所从事的是一种文学艺术形式。我想,这种信念是自我和必然性的结合。

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

可以想象,对作者或作曲家来说是统一形式的东西,对听众来说可能必然是无形的。