Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

现代悲剧作家不得不写短篇小说;如果他们写长篇故事,快乐就会悄然而至。这样的故事就像刺;短暂,但纯粹是痛苦。

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Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

很容易证明,糟糕的写作从来没有阻止过学术论文的发表。

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man.

要写得好,要像普通人一样表达自己,但要像智者一样思考。