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。

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

当一扇门关上时,另一扇门就会打开;但是我们常常对那扇关上的门望得那么久,那么遗憾,以致于我们没有看到那扇为我们打开的门。

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

小说是一种印象,而不是一种论点;事情到此为止吧。

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

我的感性使我倾向于独立写作的作家。