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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
如果他是艺术家，每个人都讨厌自己的国家和同胞。
— Lawrence Durrell 劳伦斯·杜雷尔
同一主题，不同的表达
更多好句 ↗Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
诗歌包含了通过理性语言感知到的非理性的神秘。
Vladimir Nabokov
弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
译者的任务是用自己的语言创造出与原文相同的张力。那是很难的!
Manuel Puig
曼努埃尔·普伊格
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
写小说就是编织一系列谎言以达到更大的真理。
Khaled Hosseini
哈立德·侯赛尼
The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
你越是为了达到目标而固执地去学习如何射箭，你就越不会成功，而另一个就会离你越远。
Eugen Herrigel
海瑞格
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
艺术仍将是人类最惊人的活动，它诞生于我们头脑中智慧与疯狂、梦想与现实的斗争之中。
Magdalena Abakanowicz
阿巴卡诺维奇
What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.
作者为一本书带来了什么并不重要，重要的是读者贡献了什么。
Lisa Morton
莉萨·莫顿