A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

  • -- E. M. Forster E·M·福斯特

一件艺术品永远不会完成。它只是被遗弃了。

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There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.

没有理由改变这个制度。我认为我们不会放弃它。对我们来说,最重要的是后面要紧凑。这就是我们在这里要打的比赛,要打败我们是非常困难的。

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

我所属的那些体面的圈子里,那个体面的圈子里的所有人,那个我不知道安全的价值的圈子,都在反对我,他们知道,一旦失去或抛弃安全,就没有什么机会来代替它了。

It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

很难确定这是世界抛弃了教会的过错,还是教会不知道如何与世界建立联系的过错。

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

写传记时,事实和虚构不能混为一谈。如果是的话,虚构的观点应该用红墨水打印,事实应该用黑墨水打印。

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

我是一个艺术家,我需要进入自己的内心,发挥创造力,成为别人,这是我的一部分。我想我不会完全放弃。

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

把这些感叹号都删掉。感叹号就像在为自己的笑话发笑。