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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

  • -- Edna St. Vincent Millay 埃德娜·圣文森特·米莱

出版一本书的人在公共场合故意不穿裤子。

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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

最重要的事情往往是最难说出口的。它们是你感到羞耻的东西，因为语言会减少你的感觉——当你脑海中永恒的东西被拿出来的时候，它们只会缩小到活生生的大小。

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

清晰语言的最大敌人是不真诚。当一个人的真实目标和他宣称的目标之间存在差距时，他就会本能地转向冗长的词语和陈腐的习语，就像墨鱼喷出墨汁一样。

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Journalism allows it's readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

新闻让读者见证历史。小说给读者提供了一个生活的机会。

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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

一个人要翻半个图书馆才能写一本书。

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