“ The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. 优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩,而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。 Vladimir Nabokov 弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫
“ A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. 一个词对一个作家来说和对另一个作家来说是不一样的。有人把它从肚子里扯出来。另一个人从大衣口袋里把它掏了出来。 Charles Peguy 查尔斯·佩吉
“ This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. 这就是学院派最大的缺点,它关注的是思想而不是思考。 Lionel Trilling 特里林