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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

  • -- Barbara Kingsolver 芭芭拉?金索佛

好的小说创造同理心。一部小说带你去某个地方，让你透过另一个人的眼睛去看另一个人，去过另一种生活。

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Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.

我们所做的一切都是为了满足我们的需要。当这一概念应用于我们对他人的看法时，我们会发现我们没有真正的敌人，别人对我们做的是他们知道的最好的事情来满足他们的需求。

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I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

当我写小说时，我有了更多的自由，但我的回忆录对我的读者产生了更大的影响。不知何故，“信息”，即使我甚至不知道有一个，以这种形式更好地传达。

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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

同理心其实是精神吝啬的对立面。这是理解每一场战争的输赢的能力。别人的痛苦和你自己的一样有意义。

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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

传记是一个非常明确的地域，它以历史为北，以小说为南，以讣告为东，以沉闷为西。

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