Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

  • -- George Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

第一眼看上去美极了;但是当它在房子里呆了三天的时候,谁会去看它呢?

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I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

我坚决反对写学术小说。我一直认为,学术小说已经够多了,而且大多数都不好。他们中的大多数人都是有自我意识的和痛苦的,他们的工作是那些想要解决怨恨的人的工作。

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

如果批评你的朋友让你很痛苦,你这样做是安全的。但如果你从中得到一点点快乐,那就是闭嘴的时候了。

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

如果你对再次当选想得太多,那就很难值得再选一次。

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

一些最伟大的布鲁斯音乐是你听过的最黑暗的音乐。