Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

-- Lynn Abbey 李恩·阿贝

短篇小说写作需要细腻的平衡感。坦率地说，小说家可以获得更多。一部小说可能会有一两个乏味的地方，因为读者已经做出了不同的承诺。

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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

不要玩弄悖论。你为了烧灼别人而使用的那种腐蚀性物质，可能会烧灼到你自己的手指，使它们在质量上死去。

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We are handed the balance of our blood and the shape of our lives and told to do something with them.

我们被赋予了血液的平衡和生命的形状，并被告知要对它们做些什么。

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Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.

物理学依赖于一个无限以等号为中心的宇宙。

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It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

打动读者是小说家的工作。

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