Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

  • -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 柯勒律治

评论家通常都是诗人,历史学家,传记作家,如果可能的话。他们在一件事或另一件事上试过他们的才能,但都失败了;因此他们变成了批评家。

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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

当我准备和别人交谈时,我花三分之二的时间想他们想听什么,三分之一的时间想我想说什么。

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

也许新社会历史学家最重要的一课是,历史属于那些关于谁或谁的文件幸存下来的人。

People don't leave because things are hard,they leave because it's no longer worth it.

人们离开不是因为困难,而是因为不再值得。

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

历史学家讲述过去的故事,小说家讲述现在的故事。