An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

  • -- Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯

一个想法,就像鬼一样,必须先跟它说几句话,才能解释清楚。

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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

浪漫主义所谓的天才、才能或灵感,无非是凭经验找到正确的道路,跟着鼻子走,走捷径。

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

用英语写作是对前世所犯罪行所设计的最巧妙的折磨。英语阅读大众解释了原因。

When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.

当我的写作室的门气喘吁吁地关上,玫瑰花瓣几乎觉察不到的叹息落在我的书桌上时,我知道我的缪斯女神就在这里。

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

但不幸的是,洛克对待反思的观念,就好像它们是另一类沉思的对象,仅次于感觉的观念。

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

当你赢的时候,你永远不会像别人说的那么好;当你输的时候,你也永远不会像别人说的那么坏。

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

这些都是推动你在音乐上前进的东西——好奇心,对新想法的热情。