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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

  • -- Thomas Sowell 托马斯·索厄尔

自由已经付出了太多的鲜血和痛苦，不能以廉价的言辞换取自由。

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

一个作家边写边写，就像他犯了相反的错误一样，应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果，同时也使他的话难以理解。

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I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

我不能在一场音乐会上不演奏一曲又一曲，因为我的记忆力可能要衰退了。这种恐惧折磨了我好几天。

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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

我一直都很华丽。充满了修辞。这就是我的缺点。在我写作的整个过程中，我不得不与之对抗，因为这可能是一种破坏性的姿态。

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Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.

上车，做我该做的，然后回家。我们再也没有做任何事情的自由了。

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Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

悲伤是一瞬间的痛苦。放纵悲伤是一生的错误。

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I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

我享受空白页的自由。

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