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I've never abandoned the novel.

  • -- V. S. Naipaul V.S.奈保尔

我从未放弃过这本小说。

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Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

撒旦不能赢。为什么不呢?因为他不承认神的主权，不遵守神的律法。但是摩西被明确地告诉，神的祝福只来自顺服。撒旦不会赢，因为他已经放弃了上帝的统治工具，圣经律法。

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The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.

把一本书叫做小说的麻烦在于，我并不是一直在写同一本书，但是我的兴趣是有连续性的，所以当我开始写一本书的时候，如果我把它叫做“小说”，它就把它和其他的书分开了。

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The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

我们给自己规定的任务仅仅是表明我们为什么和为了什么而在生活的大部分时间里坚持这一立场，以及我们为什么和为了什么而暂时不得不放弃这一立场。

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Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

连续的口才的疲倦。要欣赏伟大，就必须抛弃它。任何事情的连续性都是令人不快的。冷是适宜的，这样我们就可以暖和起来。

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I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

我想我太天真了。但我真的不想放弃这种天真，即使是现在。

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I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

我可以以一种在当代小说中难以成功塑造的方式塑造任何角色。

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