Quotations

名言录

41．Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to be a writer —— and if so, why?

B. Cerf

柯尔律治吸毒成瘾，坡嗜酒如命。马洛背信弃义正想捅死一人，结果被那人所杀。查特顿自杀身亡，拜伦被控乱伦。你还想当一个作家吗？如果想，为什么？

瑟符

（注：以上提及的人物均为大作家或大诗人。）

42．Let the young avoid bad books as they would bad men and bad women.

J. G. Vaughan

   让年轻人避开坏书吧，就像避开坏男人和坏女人一样。

                                                  沃恩

43．Reading is not a virtue, unless the enjoyment be virtuous.

                                              H. Jackson

读书并非美德，除非从书中得到的乐趣是道德的。

                                                  杰克逊

44. A poetry of revolt against moral ideas is a poetry of revolt against life；a poetry of indifference towards moral ideas is a poetry of indifference towards life.

                                                M. Arnold

   背叛道德观念的诗是背叛生活的诗；对道德观念漠不关心的诗是对生活漠不关心的诗。

                                                  阿诺德

45．Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may moive toward it of away from it.

                                                   R.P. Warren

   作为作家，你的任务不是去阐明美德，而是要表现一个人如何可能走向美德或远离美德。

                                                    沃伦

                                  （转载自《英语学习》杂志  易草木 译）