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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As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

作为作者,你总是在歌曲中出现。如果你接近人类的样子,你就在写共同的经历。我们都做着同样的事情,所以如果你钉住了某人,那么你也钉住了自己。

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

独创性不存在于单字或句子中。独创性是一个人的思想或写作的总和。