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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

  • -- Philip Guedalla 瓦德拉

传记是一个非常明确的地域，它以历史为北，以小说为南，以讣告为东，以沉闷为西。

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I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.

我没有什么特别的仪式，但我不会写小说，除非我有几个小时的时间。对我来说，我需要一段时间来适应一种真正集中注意力的模式。

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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

对完美的追求总是意味着明确的贵族，这是一个努力的目标，就像一个崇高的哲学，一个庄严的公民政治或伟大的艺术。

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The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

事实上，每个作家，不管是小说还是非小说，都在尝试写一些真正原创的东西，这就是我认为我在做的。

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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

你不能离开已经成为你的传记的房子。

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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

如果史诗是一个明确的物种，那么传奇就不属于它。

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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

传记应该由一个尖锐的敌人来写。

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