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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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My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.

我的观点是，我只是一个人，有时候我看着别人的时候会想，‘天哪，他们花了那么多时间去想那些看起来很荒谬的事情。“但我肯定人们对我也会有同样的看法。

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There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

实际的工具有一个可爱的特性。人们对能使手服从大脑的东西感觉如此亲切。此外，人们对它感到极大的尊重;没有它，大脑和手将是无助的。

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Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.

嗯，说实话，我认为我比小说家更擅长写短篇小说。我发现小说非常难读，长时间、长时间、长时间、长时间地有意识地思考，而短篇小说几天就能毫无痛苦地脱口而出。

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I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.

我相信我将死在我生来就该做的事情上。我相信我会死得离人们远远的。我相信我将在国际无产阶级革命斗争中以革命者的身份死去。

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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

小说家总是有完全的自由，几乎可以用他们认为合适的任何方式讲述他们的故事。这就是我要做的。

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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

道德行为的质量与参与其中的人数成反比。

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