You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

  • -- Katherine Anne Porter 凯瑟琳·安·波特

你不能写教科书之外的人物,你也不能使用术语。你必须用一个六岁的孩子能听懂的语言清晰、简单、纯粹地说;然而,语言的含义和暗示,以及它的含意,都能吸引最高的智力。

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The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given.

与你的精神沟通是最有效和最基本的沟通。把它写下来。当你写下对精神的印象时,你会得到更多。

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

亚里士多德和罗素的规则都没有给出任何普通语言表达的确切逻辑;因为普通语言没有确切的逻辑。

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

语言是思想之母,而不是思想的使女。

It's actually harder to write a fun song.

写一首有趣的歌其实更难。