Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  • -- H. L. Mencken 门肯

十有八九,在艺术和生活中,确实有无真相有待发现;只有错误才会暴露出来。

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

错误毕竟是真理的基础,如果一个人不知道一件事是什么,那么如果他知道它不是什么,那么他至少增加了知识。

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.

语言的音乐对我来说变得极其重要,而且显而易见。在我七岁的时候,我就开始写作了。我是一个诗人。

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.

人的本性是随着年龄的增长,在时间的长河中架起一座小桥,以抗议变化,尤其是向好的变化。

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

对我来说,老年总是比我大十岁。

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

愤世嫉俗者十有八九是对的。