It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

  • -- Flannery O'Connor 奥康纳

宁可在失败中年轻,也不要在成功中年老。

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A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

一件成功的艺术作品,不是在虚假的和谐中消解矛盾,而是在其最内在的结构中,把纯粹的、毫不妥协的矛盾,以消极的方式表达和谐的理念。

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

我认为如果你是一个作家,你所做的一切都有助于你写作。逆境和成功都在很大程度上造就了今天的你。如果你没有经历其中任何一种,你就被剥夺了一些东西。