Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

  • -- J. G. Ballard 巴拉德

鉴于外部现实是虚构的,作者的角色几乎是多余的。他不需要虚构,因为小说已经存在了。

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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

当一件事被说成不值得反驳时,你可以肯定它要么是极其愚蠢的(在这种情况下,所有的评论都是多余的),要么就是某种可怕的东西,问题的关键所在。

I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

我不是一个真正的科幻迷,我很喜欢从科幻的角度出发,看两集。它很可爱,是个超级有趣的故事。

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.

我喜欢这样的想法,我们建立起这些墙,或规则或法律来维持我们的现实,当它们消失时,你会留下一大堆幻想。

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

我的听力很差。我无意中帮助发明和改进了一种音乐,使其主要支持者失聪。

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

但是,教育的力量很少有多大作用,除非是在那些几乎是多余的快乐的性情中。

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

小说作家,当他们开始写作时,更倾向于尝试简短的形式。

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

预测未来最好的方法就是创造未来。

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

因为无论一个人拥有什么,在现实中都只是一份礼物。