man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to
blame somebody else.
J. Burroughs. Averican naturalist
一个人可以失败多次,但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人,他还不是一个失败者。
美国博物学家巴勒斯. J.
All of us bear witness to the dissolution of our piece of creation.
Only the novelist can restore to us, in the miracle of ink that pours
itself like blood onto paper, the lineaments of our lost worlds, alive.
Norma Rosen, American novelist
我们都眼见自己创造物的变化消亡,唯有小说家能凭借墨水拥有像血一样息行流
注纸上的奇迹,为我们恢复失去的世界,使它的面貌活灵活现。
美国小说家罗森. N.
All that you do, do with your might; things done by halves are never
done right.
R. H. Stoddard, American poet
做一切事都应尽力而为,半途而废永远不行。美国诗人斯大林拖达德. R. H .
Between the annihilating fierceness of personal ambition and those who
clutter its path, there is only one possible mediator, and that is