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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

  • -- Eudora Welty 韦尔蒂

当我发现故事书是由人写的，书并不是自然奇观，而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候，我感到既震惊又失望。

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Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.

很多人想要写作;他们不想写作。换句话说，他们希望看到自己的名字出现在一本书的封面上，而他们微笑的照片出现在书的背面。但这是工作结束时的情况，而不是刚开始的时候。

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Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

打破纪录并不是你所期望的。这就像一种体育活动，通常不是喜剧和写作。

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I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

我认为电影、电影和魔术总是紧密相连的。最早制作电影的人是魔术师。

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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

对于一个内向的人来说，他所处的环境就是他自己，永远不会受到令人吃惊或无法预料的变化的影响。

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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

那位作家做得最多，他给读者的知识最多，花的时间最少。

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I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.

我宁愿读一本平庸的书，也不愿浪费时间和别人闲聊。

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Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing. Some people are not even worth your words.

有时候，什么也不说是最好的。有些人甚至不值得你说。

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It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

看到一个人能正常地生活，人们总是非常失望。

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The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

作家和读者之间的爱情从来都不值得庆祝。

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Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances.

读历史，读真实的作品，而不是小说和浪漫故事。

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It's disappointing, but it's business.

这令人失望，但这是生意。

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