The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

  • -- Robert Louis Stevenson 罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森

文学的困难不在于写作,而在于写出你的意思;不是要影响你的读者,而是要像你希望的那样准确地影响他。

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We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

我们不应该迷恋文学,不喜欢抽象的讨论,不喜欢纯粹的知识理论,从而诱使我们献身于我们同胞中被压迫的、受压迫的、受侮辱的和受伤害的人民的事业。

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

因为神话是文学的使女;而文学是美德和幸福的最好盟友之一。