The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

  • -- Omar Khayyám 奥马尔·哈伊姆

移动的手指写字,写字的人继续写。你的全部虔诚和你的全部智慧,也不能抵消它的一半。

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

艺术的功能是更新我们的感知。我们熟悉的东西我们就看不见了。作者对熟悉的场景进行了震撼,就像施了魔法一样,我们从中看到了新的含义。

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

我所遇到的一些作家是如何读完他们的书而不因无聊而死的,我无法理解。