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The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

  • -- Graham Swift 格拉汉姆·史威夫特

从完全“当下”的意义上讲，当代小说是不可能的，因为小说可能要花好几年的时间来写，所以小说开头的“现在”在写完的时候就已经不存在了。

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The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

当代艺术运动的某些趋势，但绝不是全部，似乎否定了这一理想，对我来说，似乎导致了一种纯粹装饰性的绘画观念。

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There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

有一种追求完美的激情，你很少能看到这种激情得到充分的发展;但你可能会注意到，在成功的人生中，它从来不是完全缺乏的。

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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

所有人都是平等的，这是一个命题，在正常情况下，从来没有一个理智的人对此表示过赞同。

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I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

我不担心这个时期是当代的还是三百年前的。人类都是一样的。

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The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

作家的快乐是能成为情感的思想，能完全成为思想的情感。

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This is my universe, my time, my world. There is no going back to what was. There is only the future.

这是我的世界，我的时间，我的世界。没有回头路了。只有未来。

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