If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

  • -- V. S. Naipaul V.S.奈保尔

如果作家只是坐着谈论压迫,他们就不会有太多写作。

相关名言

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

一个狂热者对一个民族的压迫念念不忘,直到他幻想自己受上天的委托去解放他们。他冒险尝试,结果除了自己的处决,几乎没有别的结果。

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

当压迫制度制度化时,个人就没有必要压迫。