Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

  • -- Charles Caleb Colton 英国作家科尔顿

我们对优秀作品的欣赏总是与其真正的困难和表面上的轻松成正比。

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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

每个人的皮肤下都住着几百个人。作家的才能在于,他能够赋予他们独立的名字、身份、个性,并让他们与与他生活在一起的其他人物联系起来。

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

我们亲密生活中最重要的事情不能和陌生人讨论,除非在书中。