文学是一种谎言,但它总是引导我们走向真相。
Literature is a lie, but it is a lie that always leads us to the truth.
And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
The world is a very complicated place, and it's not getting any simpler.
Anything you say before the word “but” does not count.