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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

  • -- Eudora Welty 韦尔蒂

当我发现故事书是由人写的，书并不是自然奇观，而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候，我感到既震惊又失望。

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Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

写作是找到某种节奏的问题。我把它比作爵士乐的节奏。大多数时候，生活是由三个字有节奏地发展而成的。如果一个人告诉自己生活就是这样，他就不会觉得那么武断。

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For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.

因为在所有的书中都有风或鬼风在那里回荡着生命的声音，一股大风吹过我们的耳管，直到我们觉得我们听到了风，真的。

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The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.

我们在祷告时所用的声音不必是伟大的，也不必是惊人的;我们就是不大声呼喊，神也必听我们。

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Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

我想我的计划是写诗，出版书，以写诗为生。我想这是一个雄心勃勃的计划。

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Cheap people often are not very happy because they love money more than they love their families.

吝啬鬼通常不太快乐，因为他们爱钱胜过爱家人。

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

有多少人从阅读一本书开始，就把自己的人生带入了一个新的时代。

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The book's always better than the movie.

书总是比电影好。

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It's disappointing, but it's business.

这令人失望，但这是生意。

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Boredom is why God invented books.

无聊是上帝创造书籍的原因。

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People are beautiful wrecks.

人是美丽的残骸。

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