I am the enfant terrible of literature and science.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

我是一个文理双全的顽童。

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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

伟大的文学作品应该对读者有一些好处:它必须使读者的感知速度加快,使他们的辨别能力增强,使他们的个人见解更加成熟。

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

这是我最悲伤的故事:在小学,他们会让我们打开情人节卡片,大声读出来。我总是给自己寄贺卡,因为没有人这么做。

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

我从那里来,往那里去。这是一个深不可测的大问题,对我们每个人都是一样的。科学对此没有答案。

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

文学是一种写作的艺术,它可以被反复阅读;新闻是马上就能抓住的东西。