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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

大自然在每一个季节,每一次都赋予它自己一些美丽;从早到晚,就像从摇篮到坟墓一样,只是一连串的变化,如此轻柔而容易,我们几乎看不到它们的进展。

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

每个孩子的生活中都应该有一个有爱心的成年人。而这并不总是一个亲生父母或家庭成员。它可能是一个朋友或邻居。通常是老师。

When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

当女孩们问自己“我是谁?”这是他们第一次听到有关数学的负面宣传,他们会想,不管我是谁,我都不喜欢数学。

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.

与此同时,我们的青年男女正在一场看不到尽头的战争中英勇地死去,他们的经济状况使服兵役成为一种可行的职业选择。

Loving him is like trying to change your mind once you're already flying through the free fall.

爱他就像在自由落体时试图改变自己的想法。

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

使一个有创造力的人成为有创造力的人,这就是全部。

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

从现在到星期二我要做的工作,创造力是一个夸张的词。

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

哦,我想每个作家都从她读过的书中受到启发。

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

写这本书本身就是一个隐藏和揭示的过程。

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

我现在和将来的一切都归功于书籍。

A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.

一本书因为没有准备好出版而被拒绝。

Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.

从思考开始写作,而不是纠结于文字。

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

大量的书使我们变得无知。

These are the times that try men's souls.

这是考验人类灵魂的时刻。