I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

我深信过多的文学作品是一种社会罪行。

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If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

如果从前面评论的文学基调中有人设想,我们对为群众利益而进行的激进运动漠不关心,这是十九世纪至高无上的光荣,那么他们很快就会发现他们犯了一个惊人的错误。

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

正义要求每个人都有足够的食物。但它也要求每个人都应为粮食生产做出贡献。

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

我认为我的情感很文学;我所有的书都是作为书来写的,我没有把它们当成电影。

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

我对一部作品的大多数假设通常都是错误的。