As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

  • -- Seamus Heaney 西默斯·希尼

作为作家和读者,作为罪人和公民,我们的现实主义和审美意识使我们不敢相信积极的音符。

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If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

如果一个人以开放的心态,勤奋而长久地阅读和观察;如果一个人这样做涵盖了一个广阔的领域,而这样的涵盖反映了现实主义,那么他可能很快或迟些时候会突然意识到,人是一个未知数,他的存在是不被怀疑的。

Every time I hear writers talk about 'the muse,' I just want to bitch-slap them. It's a job. Do your job.

每次我听到作家们谈论“缪斯女神”,我就想狠狠地打他们一巴掌。这是一份工作。做你的工作。

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

小说是一种印象,而不是一种论点;事情到此为止吧。

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

面对现实的本来面目,而不是你想要的样子。