Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

  • -- Robert Benchley 本奇利

伟大的文学必须产生于作者灵魂的剧变。如果这种剧变不存在,那么它一定来自任何其他作者的作品,而这些作品恰好是方便和容易改编的。

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We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.

我们都在踏着空气中一首歌的消逝之路,春天的花朵和冬雪的消逝之路,风和溪的消逝之路,心爱的脸庞的消逝之路。

As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.

当你了解自己是谁的时候,你就能更好地和那些让你成为更好的人的朋友们在一起,而这种情况有时只会发生在你拆散旧关系的时候。

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

文学没有证据。因此,我们必须明白,它不仅不能证明它说了什么,甚至不能证明它值得说出来。

Cricket, like the novel, is great when it presents men in the round, when it shows the salty quality of human nature.

板球,就像小说一样,是伟大的,当它全面展现了男人,当它展示了人性的咸质。

This is what really happens when fairy tales exist. There is nothing magical or enchanting about it, my dear.

这就是童话存在时的真实情况。亲爱的,它没有什么魔力或迷人之处。

All that is literature seeks to communicate power: all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

所有的文学都是为了传播力量:所有的文学都不是为了传播知识。

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

大鼻子的人认为人人都在谈论他。

Evil events from evil causes spring.

祸不单行,祸不单行。