Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

  • -- Truman Capote 杜鲁门·卡波特

写作有透视法、明暗法,就像绘画或音乐一样。如果你生下来就知道这些,那很好。如果没有,学习他们。然后根据自己的需要重新排列规则。

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No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

任何人都没有侵犯他人平等权利的自然权利,这就是法律应该约束他的一切。

Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

给那些想要在没有任何恼人延迟的情况下取得成功的年轻作家的建议:不要写男人,写男人。

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

作家写一本书是为了忘记一本书,而读者读一本书是为了记住它。

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

我不是死刑的支持者,但我将按照本届国会的要求执行这项法律。