The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

  • -- Paul de Man 保罗·德曼

写作的矛盾在于,它既可以被看作是一种行为,也可以被看作是一种解释过程,一种与之不一致的行为之后的解释过程。因此,它既肯定又否定自己的本性。

相关名言

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

如果一个作家不得不抢劫他的母亲,他不会犹豫:“希腊瓮上的颂歌”比任何数量的老妇人都值钱。

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

不劳而获地写出来的东西,读起来通常没有乐趣。