To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

  • -- Charles Churchill 查尔斯·丘吉尔

复制美就丧失了一切名利的伪装;复制错误是没有意义的。

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Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.

萧伯纳说过,当你模仿自己的时候,你就知道你有自己的风格。我觉得如果你能像你写的那样,那么你就是真实的自己。这不是一件容易的事情——这是一件令人厌恶的困难的事情。

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

我的父母很穷,但我们从未感到任何需要或匮乏。那是一个非常亲密、充满爱、关系紧密的家庭,我从来没有感到过任何被剥夺的感觉。

I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.

我必须自由……我可以自由地做我喜欢的事,说我喜欢的,写我喜欢的,在我自己对得体和合适的感觉所规定的范围内。