Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

  • -- E. M. Forster E·M·福斯特

信件必须通过两项测试才能被归类为优秀:它们必须同时表达写信人和收信人的个性。

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In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.

在我所有的作品中,我都试图创造一种对话,在这种对话中,我想激发接受者,激发他们使用自己的想象力。我不只是说收件人想听的话,奉承他们的自尊心,或者同意他们的意见来安慰他们。我必须激怒他们,像对待自己一样认真对待他们。

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

我知道我遇到了这样一个人,他的个性是如此迷人,如果我允许他这样做,他会吸收我的整个天性,我的整个灵魂,甚至我的艺术本身。

We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing.

我们当然欢迎接受国派遣他们的检查员到我们的海岸,如果他们想要投资帮助保护出口的货物的话。

As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl.

作为一个不吃、不喝、不抽烟的客人,你有很多不足之处,但作为一个作家,你是我的女孩。

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

在戏剧中保持一个人的个性、完整性和真正的个性是一项艰巨的任务。

The true Writer GOD.

真正的作家上帝。