Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

-- Raymond Chandler 雷蒙德·钱德勒

一个作家对小说艺术或工艺的了解，只会使他对写作的需要或欲望减少一点点。最后他知道了所有的诀窍，却无话可说。

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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

诗歌可以使我们不时地对构成我们存在的基础的更深层的、无名的感情有更多的认识，而我们很少能深入到这种感情中去;因为我们的生活大多是对我们自己的不断逃避。

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The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.

学习词汇的最后一个动机应该是给人留下深刻印象。语言是需要后天习得的，因为我们迫切需要它们——去传达，去触及，去表达我们内心的某种东西，去理解他人。

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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

一切都说过了，但既然没有人听，我们就得从头再来。

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Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

幸运的是，我现在能够参加比赛完全是因为我有这样做的愿望。

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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

这也是女性结婚的部分原因——为了保持处于事物中心的假象。

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St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.

圣保罗教堂矗立着——连一扇破窗都没有。小奇迹。

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Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

大多数时候我引用自己的话。这不是傲慢，这是作家的工作。

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I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

我永远不会退休。如果我退休了，我只是用完了别人的氧气。

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I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

我环顾四周，发现自己一团糟。我不知道我为什么要这么做。

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Sometimes you need to run away just to see who will come after you.

有时候你需要逃跑，只是为了看看谁会来追你。

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The desire that I may have no desire is itself a desire.

我可能没有欲望的欲望本身就是欲望。

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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

任何写作的人都不喜欢被误解。

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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

历史会对我很好，因为我打算写它。

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All you need is believe in yourself.

你所需要的只是相信你自己。

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I'm a huge science fiction fan.

我是个超级科幻迷。

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Writing starts with living.

写作始于生活。

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Everything has an end.

万物皆有终结。

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At least I can write.

至少我能写。

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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

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