Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

  • -- Edward Gibbon 爱德华·吉本

由于缺乏独到的学识,没有形成良好的思维习惯,对写作艺术一窍不通,我决定写一本书。

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As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.

作为市长,我将全力支持我的艺术委员会及其专业遴选委员会,使他们能够委托一系列大胆的、在适当情况下大胆传统的公共艺术。

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

作家不只是坐下来写作的人。他们危害自己。每次你写一本书,你对自己的看法就会受到威胁。

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

如果历史不断重演,而意想不到的事情总是发生,那么人类一定无法从经验中学习。

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

我觉得我只是在学弹吉他。我是说,真的在学习弹吉他。

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

构成赋予渗透世界的自然声音以适当的意义。

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

影响一天的质量,那是艺术的最高境界。