Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

  • -- C. S. Lewis C.S.刘易斯

即使在文学和艺术领域,也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反,如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次),十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。

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Ah yes, going back to writing, how disgusting! As if all this had some purpose, as if all this would penetrate some thick skull, amuse some drivelling reader curled up in his armchair before the soporific stew of every day!

啊,对了,继续写下去,真恶心!仿佛这一切都是有目的的,仿佛这一切都能穿透某个厚实的脑壳似的,在每天那令人昏昏欲睡的炖菜之前,让某位蜷缩在扶手椅里的无聊的读者逗乐吧!

That's why I do what I do, and that's why I wanted to be an actress from the time I was six years old. If I can't effectively move people, then I would prefer not to do it.

这就是为什么我做我所做的,这就是为什么我从六岁起就想成为一名演员。如果我不能有效地调动人们,那么我宁愿不这么做。

I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it.

我认为好的作品最终会出现,人们喜欢它,而糟糕的作品不会。嗯,没有。糟糕的写作确实会出现,因为有些人喜欢它。

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

轻信对一个人所造成的危害并不局限于培养别人轻信的性格,从而支持错误的信念。

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

没有道德或不道德的书。书要么写得好,要么写得不好。

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

啊,我们能读书的日子!读者和书,两者缺一不可,就等于零。

Creativity is, quite simply, a genuine interest combined with initiative.

创造力,很简单,是一种真正的兴趣与主动性的结合。

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

适当地运用创造力可以使一个广告达到十个广告的效果。

We can't change the past. But maybe we can figure out the future.

我们无法改变过去。但也许我们能算出未来。

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

你会发现大多数值得读的书都值得读两遍。

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

一本书应该是一把斧子,劈开我们内心冰冷的大海。

When we change our thoughts, we will change our experiences.

当我们改变我们的想法,我们就会改变我们的经历。

There is a time to be born, and a time to die.

生有涯,死有涯。

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

世人对伟人一无所知。