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2.Shoulder the Responsibility of Being a Writer
2.肩負起作為一名作家的責任
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it.
當今人們普遍存在著一種生理上的恐懼，這種恐懼由來已久，以致我們都已經習慣了。
There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up?
現在不存在精神上的問題，惟一的問題是——我什么時候會爆炸？
Because of this, the young man or women writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.
正因如此，今天從事寫作的男女青年已經忘記了人類內心的沖突，而這種沖突恰恰是創作的源泉，因為這是惟一值得寫、值得嘔心瀝血地去寫的題材。
He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid;
創作者必須重新學會這一切；必須教會自己認識到一切事物的本質是恐懼；
and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart,
教會自己學會忘記一切恐懼；在自己的創作空間里不給其他東西留任何空間，惟一擁有的是心靈的真諦。
the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.
世界上放之四海而皆準的真理是：任何創作一旦缺乏愛，榮譽，同情，自豪，憐憫和犧牲都將是短暫的，是注定要失敗的。
