To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
世界的救赎在于人类的苦难中。
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
作家的唯一责任是对他的艺术负责。如果他是个好作家，他会完全无情...如果一个作家必须抢劫他的母亲，他不会犹豫；
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.
我是个失败的诗人。也许每个小说家最初都想写诗，发现自己做不到后尝试短篇小说——那是仅次于诗歌要求最高的形式。连这个也失败了，他才会转向长篇小说。
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.
They are not monuments, but footprints. A monument only says, 'At least I got this far,' while a footprint says, 'This is where I was when I moved again.'
它们不是纪念碑，而是脚印。纪念碑只会说'至少我到了这里'，而脚印会说'这是我再次移动时所在的地方'。
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
Man will not merely endure: he will prevail.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
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