While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

作家在世时,我们以他最差的作品来评价他的力量;死后,我们以他最好的作品来评价他的力量。

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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

无论我走到哪里,都会有人问我,我是否认为大学扼杀了作家。我的观点是,他们没有扼杀足够多的。有许多畅销书本可以被一个好老师阻止。

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

自从它第一次被放在那里,它就无处不在。它被称为地理。