The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

一般来说,这个世界不知道如何去创造;它从舒适的思维习惯中受到惊吓,它的第一反应是愤怒。

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The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

即使是最好的译本,也无法向我们传达思想的力量和细腻,而对这样的书闭门不出的人,只能在外面的黑暗中挣扎。

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

她的优点是她想说什么就说什么,她的缺点是她的想法无足轻重。