Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

  • -- Bennett Cerf 贝内特·瑟夫

礼貌:喝汤时不要发出的声音。

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It can be difficult workshopping novels because any questions or qualms you have as the author can be like, 'That's next chapter, don't worry about it!' I don't think the workshop is set up so well to do that for novels.

买小说可能很难,因为作为作者,你可能会有任何问题或疑虑,比如,“这是下一章,别担心!”他说,我认为这个工作室的设置不适合写小说。

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

一直困扰我一生的一个问题是,为什么当我特别需要帮助时,做好事的人往往是我无权要求帮助的人。

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

作者自己是对自己作品的最佳评判者;没有人对这个问题进行过如此深刻的思考;没有人对这一事件如此真诚地感兴趣。

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

理想主义者是这样一种人,当他注意到玫瑰比卷心菜更香时,就会得出结论:玫瑰也能做更好的汤。

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

我知道我没有足够的能力把自己分成挣钱的人和创造的人。

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

有礼貌有时只是意味着容忍别人的不礼貌。

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

当我喝字母汤的时候,我从来没有想过会有回报。