Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

  • -- Raymond Chandler 雷蒙德·钱德勒

大多数批判性的写作都是胡言乱语,而且有一半是不诚实的。无论如何,这是一条通往遗忘的捷径。用思想来思考破坏了用情感和感觉来思考的能力。

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I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.

我会看到一个人物的照片,然后试着把它们复制到我的脸上。我认为我很善于观察,思考一个人是如何组成的,在街上看到他们,注意他们身上的细微之处,正是这些细微之处造就了他们。

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

大部分最有趣的科学家都曾经或多或少地读过很多科幻小说,要么是在他们成为科学家的过程中就已经读过了,要么是在他们后来成为科学家的过程中,因为他们喜欢科幻小说中的观点。

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

无论如何,我决不会说我丢了这样一件东西,但我已经把它找回来了。你的孩子死了吗?这是一种回报。你妻子死了吗?这是一种回报。你的财产被剥夺了吗?这不也是一种回报吗?

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

真理的一栏不能使一个思想体系免于陷入无知。明智的做法是,一个谨慎而有决心的人把自己的力量留给能够获胜的战斗。

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

写规则的诗破坏了无数美好的可能性,但同时也暗示了许多遥远的、完全出乎意料的想法。

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

并不是说创造性行为和批判性行为是同时发生的。这更像是你脱口而出,然后分析它。

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

我想了好几个月,好多年。99次,结论都是错误的。第一百次我是对的。

Destroy everything that destroys you.

毁掉毁掉你的一切。