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.

  • -- Charles Peguy 查尔斯·佩吉

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。

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If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.

如果程序员因创造了创新的程序而应该得到奖励,同样,如果他们限制了这些程序的使用,他们也应该受到惩罚。

If you do not breathe through writing; if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write; our culture has no use for it.

如果你不通过写作来呼吸;如果你不在写作中哭泣,或在写作中歌唱,那么就不要写作;我们的文化对此毫无用处。

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

任何两个人之间的差别,都不可能比同一个人、情人和丈夫之间的差别更大。

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.

如果你有足够的勇气去读我之前写的书,我将写一本能够改变整个人类的书。

I die a little inside every time you use the word "friend" to describe me.

每次你用“朋友”这个词来形容我的时候,我的内心都有一点点死去。

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

每一个字都像是对沉默和虚无的一种不必要的污迹。