I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。

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It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

我花了多年的努力、努力和研究才学会做一个简单的手势,我对写作艺术也有足够的了解,我意识到,写一个简单、漂亮的句子需要多年的集中精力。

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

我认为我为比我想象中更多的人写作的想法已经产生了一种文学和政治上的普遍责任。我甚至有一种自豪感,因为我不想落后于我以前所做的。

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

我不想对任何人吹嘘,也不想看到任何人吃乌鸦,不管是比喻的还是别的什么。我们应该团结起来,建立一个人人都可以随时吃火鸡的国家。

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

想要飞翔的想法是我们的祖先传给我们的,他们……羡慕地看着鸟儿在太空中自由翱翔……在无限的空中高速公路上。

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

当我二十多岁身无分文的时候,我会先买书再买食物。一顿饭可以支撑你几个小时,一本好书可以支撑你一生。

Thanks to his bodily form and thanks to his mind, man is a universal machine, capable of an infinite diversity of movement.

由于他的身体形态和思想,人类是一个宇宙机器,能够有无限的多样性的运动。

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

你写得很轻松,以显示你的教养,但写得容易,读起来难。

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

我的教育被忽视了,但我却酷爱读书。

The night cometh when no man can work.

黑夜来临,没有人能工作。

There can be no forced inspiration.

没有强迫的灵感。