Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

  • -- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 切尔西·奎因·亚伯

提供一个作家不被惯例所阻碍——有些是这样的——参加这些惯例可以从必要的写作孤立中得到很好的休息。

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

友谊只能存在于有着相似兴趣和观点的人之间。男人和女人由社会习俗而生,有着不同的兴趣和不同的观点。

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

艺术家处理无法用语言表达的东西。以小说为媒介的艺术家是用文字来表达的。小说家用语言表达了无法用语言表达的东西。

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

在社会事务中,毫无意义的习俗不仅是礼仪的蜜蜂蜇人之痛,也是道德秩序的毒蛇咬人之痛。

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

我想写一首最美的诗,但那是不可能的;世界已经书写了自己。

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

我想找一份体面的直升机飞行员的工作。

Most people are nice and just want to have a chat.

大多数人都很好,只是想聊天。