A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

  • -- E. M. Forster E·M·福斯特

一件艺术品永远不会完成。它只是被遗弃了。

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And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.

我所有的努力都是不幸的探险者放弃探险回来;标本,野心的百合花还在生长,还没有采摘;但是,时间,时间是我所缺少的一切来找到他们,作为伟大的收藏家在我之前。

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

如果我们放弃对什么是真的,什么是假的,什么是不确定的关心,世界将会完全混乱。一方面,即使是那些否认真相重要性的人,也会很快抓住任何一个说谎的人。

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

新闻被编排、预测、报道、分析,直到所有的兴趣都被榨干,并被一些新的新奇事物所抛弃。

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

有时候故事需要大声讲出来,你写出来只是为了让他们闭嘴。

Being abandoned doesn't make for little angels.

被遗弃并不能造就小天使。

God pity the poor novelist.

上帝怜悯这位可怜的小说家。