Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

  • -- Edmond de Goncourt 龚古尔

历史学家讲述过去的故事,小说家讲述现在的故事。

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People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

人们走的路越远越好,走的路越走越远,走的路越走越远,走的路越走越远,走的路越走越远,犯的错误也越多。然后,历史学家们对这个混乱的非线性过程进行总结,使它看起来像一条简单的直线。

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

短篇小说写作需要细腻的平衡感。坦率地说,小说家可以获得更多。一部小说可能会有一两个乏味的地方,因为读者已经做出了不同的承诺。

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

不要玩弄悖论。你为了烧灼别人而使用的那种腐蚀性物质,可能会烧灼到你自己的手指,使它们在质量上死去。