Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

  • -- Walter Bagehot 沃尔特·巴格霍特

作家像牙齿一样被分为门牙和磨牙。

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The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

如果一个作家失去了自我怀疑,随着年龄的增长,他突然变得兴高采烈,变得啰嗦,那么他应该立即停止写作:他该放下笔了。

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

亚里斯多德本可以避免认为女人的牙齿比男人少的错误,只要他数的时候让亚里斯多德夫人张着嘴。

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

现代断言的含蓄有时被推到极端,在这种情况下,对被反驳的恐惧使作者几乎丧失了所有的意义和意义。

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

我们现在生活在一个既怀疑事实又怀疑价值的时代。我们希望看到和评判的是这个时代的生活。

Writing is no answer but when you feel deeply there is little else to do.

写作是没有答案的,但当你深深地感到没有什么可以做的。

I have really crooked teeth - they give me character!

我的牙齿真的很弯——它们赋予我性格!