To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man.

  • -- Aristotle 亚里士多德

要写得好,要像普通人一样表达自己,但要像智者一样思考。

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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

成为受害者对人们很有吸引力。而不是必须考虑整个情况,关于历史、你的团队和你在做什么……如果你从受害者的角度出发,你已经成功了一半。我的意思是智力。

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

诗人的工作不是寻找新的情感,而是运用普通的情感,把它们编成诗歌,表达那些根本不属于实际情感的情感。

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

语言……创造了“孤独”这个词来表达孤独的痛苦。它创造了“孤独”这个词来表达独处的荣耀。

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

如果你在写一本书的时候遇到了困难,试试“出其不意”的方法:在对方没有预料到的时候下手。

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

我发现写歌很难,因为这对我来说不是天生的。我从来没有想过要成为一个作曲家或歌手。

Do not dump your woes upon people. Keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

不要把你的不幸转嫁给别人。把你生命中的悲伤故事留给自己。一遍遍地叙述,麻烦就会增加。