How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

当你还没有站起来生活的时候,坐下来写作是多么的徒劳。

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

艺术的功能是更新我们的感知。我们熟悉的东西我们就看不见了。作者对熟悉的场景进行了震撼,就像施了魔法一样,我们从中看到了新的含义。

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

我发现写一篇关于好的广告的演讲比写一篇好的广告要容易得多。

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

没有完美的写作,就像没有完美的绝望一样。

A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.

备忘录是为了保护作者而写的,而不是为了通知读者。