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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

你的稿子既好又新颖。但好的部分不是原创的，原创的部分也不是好的。

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I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

我爱上了足球，就像后来爱上女人一样:突然间，莫名其妙地，不加批判地，完全没有考虑到足球带来的痛苦和破坏。

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There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

从来没有一本好的小说家传记。不可能有。如果他有什么本事，那就是人太多了。

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There are a lot of fun vacation spots in the universe; the bug-pits of Aylorta Five are not one of them.

宇宙中有很多有趣的度假胜地;艾洛塔五镇的臭虫坑不在其中。

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But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

但是，现在的情况是，我几乎所有的作品都绝版了。

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