The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.

  • -- Cyril Connolly 西里尔·康诺利

我们读的书越多,就越清楚地认识到,作家的真正职责是创作一部杰作,没有其他任何任务是重要的。

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We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

我们有一种倾向,认为每个人都是白痴,每个人只是在做一些白痴的事情,而这个世界是由一群不那么神秘的白痴控制的。我想这是有道理的,但也不是真的。

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

我将试着解释我的审美情感的程度。我认为,这就是批评家的职责。

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

宽恕是一种意志的行为,而意志的作用与心灵的温度无关。

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

每一位伟大的作家,甚至是每一位优秀的作家,都是按照自己的规范来改造世界的。

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

我已经习惯了和作家一起工作,所以我的主要职业是发展。

Your dreams can come true.

你的梦想可以成真。