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Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

  • -- Northrop Frye 弗莱

美与真也许是优秀作品的特质，但如果作者有意追求真理，他很可能会发现他所触及的只是说教。

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

清晰语言的最大敌人是不真诚。当一个人的真实目标和他宣称的目标之间存在差距时，他就会本能地转向冗长的词语和陈腐的习语，就像墨鱼喷出墨汁一样。

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You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.

你可以教一个关心写专栏的人，但你不能教一个写专栏的人去关心。

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