Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

  • -- Robert Benchley 本奇利

伟大的文学必须产生于作者灵魂的剧变。如果这种剧变不存在,那么它一定来自任何其他作者的作品,而这些作品恰好是方便和容易改编的。

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If you look not just at the Arab Spring, but at what I call the 'Youth Spring' that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.

如果你不仅关注阿拉伯之春,而且关注我所说的始于欧洲的“青年之春”,年轻人开始找到自己的声音,他们不再指望传统媒体来反映这一点。

I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

我开始研究棉布。我用棉花是因为它很容易使用,很容易清洗,很容易护理,很容易穿,不管天气是冷是热。太棒了。这就是开始。

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

那么,网络,或者图案,一个既感性又有逻辑性的网络,一个优雅而富有内涵的结构:那就是风格,那是文学艺术的基础。

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

春天是漫长的暴风雨季节,四月是湿漉漉、争分好胜的,冬天是寒冷无比的五月;但是夏天终于来了。

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

因此,通常情况下,那些付出最多的人付出最少,而那些付出较少的人却以某种方式对他人不理不睬。

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

文学想象是作家向爱书者提供的审美对象。

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

一旦你说你会安于现状,这就是你的生活。

But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.

但是狡猾的皮特很棒。我没跟他提克的事。反正也不太多。