Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

  • -- Nathaniel Hawthorne 纳撒尼尔·霍桑

单词——它们是如此的无辜和无力,就像站在字典里,在一个知道如何将它们结合在一起的人的手中,它们对善恶的力量是多么的强大。

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Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

提供一个作家不被惯例所阻碍——有些是这样的——参加这些惯例可以从必要的写作孤立中得到很好的休息。

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

话说反弹。如果你让他们说,他们会做他们想做和必须做的事。