To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

  • -- Nelson Algren 纳尔逊·阿尔格伦

在文学批评家看来,一本书在证明自己无罪之前是有罪的。

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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

正如音乐是有意义的噪音,绘画是有意义的色彩,故事是有意义的生活。

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。