A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

  • -- Roald Dahl 罗尔德·达尔

要想成为作家,一个人是愚蠢的。他唯一的补偿就是绝对的自由。

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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

我什么都不满足,躁动不安,野心勃勃……我鄙视自己的虚荣心,虚荣心是我努力的一半动力。啊,但愿我是那些曾经着手犁地的迟钝而又聪明的傻瓜之一,什么也不怀疑。

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

对你的事业来说,你的坦诚是值得的。找到一个拥有新理论的人,坦率地承认他发现了困难,无法克服,至少目前是这样,这令人耳目一新。

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

凡是通过了正规的古典教育的等级考试而没有被它愚弄的人,可能会认为自己是死里逃生。

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

把你为自己要求的每一项权利都给予他人——这就是我的信条。

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

如果一个人不改变,他就真的有问题。

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

朋友是给你完全自由做你自己的人。