When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

  • -- Michel Houellebecq 米歇尔·维勒贝克

当一个国家强大时……它接受作者的任何悲观论调。

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

一个作家边写边写,就像他犯了相反的错误一样,应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果,同时也使他的话难以理解。

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

乐观主义者看到的是玫瑰,而不是它的刺;悲观主义者盯着荆棘,没有注意到玫瑰。

I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

我和那些认为我的作品神圣不可侵犯的作家们是相反的。

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

有创造力的作家总是比他们所代表的事业更伟大。