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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

  • -- C. S. Lewis C.S.刘易斯

不要在主题上使用太大的词。当你的意思是“非常”时，不要说“无穷大”;否则，当你想谈论一些真正无限的东西时，你就会无话可说。

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If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.

如果我必须控制自己说话的内容，那将是一件苦差事。现在我觉得自己脱了鞋，每个人都进来，我说话。如果我是一个演员，这可能是个问题，但现在我只是在说废话，我可以随便说任何人的坏话，我想说什么就说什么，然后继续前进。

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The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.

作家写作是为了教育自己，了解自己，满足自己;发表他的想法，虽然带来了满足感，但却令人好奇地扫兴。

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I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

我喜欢文字。文字是地方、房间、遥远的空气、稀薄的热带。它们让我们感觉和想象我们不仅仅是我们的身体。

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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

不以任何形式的行动结束的谈话最好被完全压制。

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All my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity.

我所有的话都带着平庸的色彩回到我的脑海。

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Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

在我的写作中如此诚实是一种宣泄。

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