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A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

  • -- Lynn Abbey 李恩·阿贝

一个优秀的短篇小说作家有一种本能，就是在足够的背景下勾勒出一个特定的故事。

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I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.

我认为小说在总体上不太擅长支持或反对事物——一个短篇小说所能提出的修辞论点，只有通过增加特定的细节才能实现，而这些细节的特殊性使得故事得出的任何结论在更广泛的应用中都是无效的。

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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

对于女性来说，有一种基本的女性本能，那就是深切关注自己的外表;女明星有一种自恋情结。

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I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

我仍然偶尔会写短篇小说，偶尔也会看小说，但这并不是我想做的。

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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

预测者的羊群本能让羊看起来像是独立的思考者。

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