सफल कथा-साहित्य का रहस्य लगातार उसमें बना रहने वाला एक हल्का सा नयापन है।
The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.
The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.
इसकी परवाह मत करो कि तुम किसकी प्रशंसा करते हो, बल्कि इस बात को लेकर बहुत सावधान रहो कि तुम किसकी आलोचना करते हो।
Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.
Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.
भविष्य एक अनचाहे मेहमान की तरह आता है।
The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
बीता हुआ कल एक गुज़र चुका जनाज़ा है।
The past is a funeral gone by.
The past is a funeral gone by.
मेरे शुरुआती बचपन में कभी किसी ने मुझसे यह प्यारा सा वाक्य नहीं कहा: 'एक था राजा, एक थी रानी!'... मुझे यही लगता है कि मेरे माता-पिता ने तथ्यों के प्रति मेरे नजरिए से कल्पना को दूर रखकर गलती की। वे मुझे सच्चा बनाना चाहते थे; लेकिन इसका असर यह हुआ कि मैं तार्किक और शक्की बन गया। अगर उन्होंने मुझे अलौकिक कल्पनाओं के कोमल आंचल में लपेटा होता, तो शायद मेरा मन बिना किसी सवाल के उनकी परंपराओं को लंबे समय तक मानता रहता।
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.
बड़ी उम्र में आकर मैं हमेशा मिलनसार रहा हूँ, इंसानों से प्यार करने वाला, और अपने नैतिक जीवन की धड़कन के लिए दोस्तों की संगति पर निर्भर रहने वाला। किसी द्वीप पर अकेले छूट जाना, किसी तन्हा कोठरी में बंद रहना, किसी सुनसान लाइटहाउस में रहना, या जंगल में अकेले कैंप लगाना—ये सब मुझे ऐसे कष्ट लगे हैं जिन्हें कल्पना में भी बर्दाश्त करना मुश्किल है। एक ऐसी स्थिति जहाँ बातचीत न हो, मेरे फेफड़ों के सांस लेने के लिए ऑक्सीजन से इतनी खाली है कि मैं वहाँ दम घुटने लगूँ।
In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a lighthouse, or to camp alone in a forest, these have always seemed to me afflictions too heavy to be borne, even in imagination. A state in which conversation exists not, is for me an air too empty of oxygen for my lungs to breathe it.
In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a lighthouse, or to camp alone in a forest, these have always seemed to me afflictions too heavy to be borne, even in imagination. A state in which conversation exists not, is for me an air too empty of oxygen for my lungs to breathe it.
पंच परिवार के अंदरूनी झगड़ों ने मुझे बहुत प्रभावित किया; मुझे लगा कि मिसेज पंच थोड़ी समझदारी दिखातीं और मिस्टर पंच अपने स्वाभाविक रूप से उग्र गुस्से पर थोड़ा काबू रखते, तो इस दुखद गलतफहमी से काफी हद तक बचा जा सकता था।
I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.
I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.
युद्ध की कविताओं के संकलनों की तुरंत मिली सफलता ने... यह साबित कर दिया कि युद्ध ने एक नए वर्ग के पाठकों में समकालीन कविता के प्रति रुचि जगा दी है... विश्व इतिहास में इससे पहले कभी ऐसा दौर नहीं आया जिसने ब्रिटेन में पिछले तीन वर्षों में आई कविताओं की बाढ़ को सहन किया हो, बल्कि उसका स्वागत किया हो।
The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has never before, in the world's history, been an epoch which has tolerated and even welcomed such a flood of verse as has been poured forth over Great Britain during the last three years.
The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has never before, in the world's history, been an epoch which has tolerated and even welcomed such a flood of verse as has been poured forth over Great Britain during the last three years.