If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

  • -- Jane Austen 简·奥斯汀

如果一本书写得好,我总是觉得它太短了。

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It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

一个伟大的想法能把人焊接在一起,其力量是惊人的。这里面有一种奇特的、强烈的、充满活力的精神,如果你愿意这么说的话,这是我以前在任何一次打击中从未感受过的。

Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

哭一场,自有它的道理。但是你迟早要停下来,然后你仍然要决定做什么。

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

所有的挪威孩子都在很小的时候就开始学习游泳,因为如果你不会游泳,你就很难找到一个游泳的地方。

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

很久以前我就下定决心,生命太短暂了,我不能为自己做任何事情,我可以付钱让别人为我做。

When reading I pretend I’m an editor, though when writing I realize I’m not.

阅读时,我假装自己是一名编辑,但写作时,我意识到自己不是。

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

如果我们只能在自然中找到上帝,我们就没有道德上的上帝。

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter.

我们是同一台糟糕打字机上的伟大作家。

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

小说揭示了现实所掩盖的真相。