Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

  • -- Rebecca West 丽贝卡·韦斯特

写作与人与人之间的交流无关,而只是一个人思想的不同部分之间的交流。

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Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

沟通是一种持续的平衡行为,在亲密和独立的需求之间平衡。为了在这个世界上生存,我们必须与他人合作,但是为了作为我们自己而生存,而不仅仅是作为一个齿轮上的齿轮,我们必须独自行动。

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.Most people do not listen with the intent to understand: they listen with the intent to reply. They’re filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people’s lives.

先寻求理解,再寻求被理解。大多数人倾听的目的不是为了理解,而是为了回应。他们通过自己的范例来过滤一切,把自己的自传读给别人听。

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

如果一个人研究得太多,用尽了他的思考能力,他就会感到困惑,甚至无法理解他所能理解的东西。因为在这方面,身体的能力都是一样的。

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

写一本书很难。事实证明,写第二本书的难度是第二本书的两倍。

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

喜欢一个人是喜欢另一个人的额外原因。

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

和你一起写作是我活下去的唯一动力。