An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

编辑应该告诉作者他的作品比实际要好。不是好多了,是好多了一点。

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Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

音乐既不古老也不现代:它要么是好音乐,要么是坏音乐,它创作的年代也没有任何意义。

I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

我有六个诚实的仆人。(我所知道的都是他们教给我的);他们的名字是“什么”、“为什么”、“什么时候”、“怎样”、“在哪里”和“谁”。