Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

不要玩弄悖论。你为了烧灼别人而使用的那种腐蚀性物质,可能会烧灼到你自己的手指,使它们在质量上死去。

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I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'

我很会讲故事;我对人很有同情心。这对小说家来说非常有用。许多小说家都是势利小人。他们只是些卑鄙的人。我不是一个非常熟练的造型师,我也不想成为。我想让很多人读我的故事,然后说,‘那太酷了。’

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

如果一个学徒听不到大师所听到的,那么这种品质在音乐中不存在吗?是的,没有。在学徒生活的世界里

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

在困扰小说家的许多问题中,最重要的问题是小说开始的时间的选择。

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

社会进步更容易通过对结果质量的关注而不是单纯的动机来实现。

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

孩子们记住你,不是因为你提供了物质上的东西,而是因为你珍惜他们的感觉。

Things are going to be okay. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but eventually, it will all okay.

一切都会好起来的。也许不是今天,也许不是明天,但最终,一切都会好起来的。