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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

我宁愿被攻击也不愿被忽视。因为你对一个作家所能做的最糟糕的事就是对他的作品保持沉默。袭击一个城镇是件坏事;但挨饿更糟糕。

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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

我受到了表扬和批评。批评刺痛了我，但赞扬有时更让我烦恼。得到这样的赞扬和荣誉，我一直感到困惑。

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Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.

把手稿变成一本书很容易;把手稿准备成书是很困难的。

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If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

如果你把羽毛好好涂上油，批评之水就会像鸭子背上的水一样流走。

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No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

让历史成为人们愿意读的东西，对历史并没有什么害处。

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