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The novel, if it be anything, is contemporary history, an exact and complete reproduction of social surroundings of the age we live in.
这部小说可以说是一部现代史，是对我们所处时代社会环境的准确而完整的再现。
— George Moore 乔治·摩尔
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更多好句 ↗Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
书籍是忠实的镜子，它向我们的心灵反映了圣人和英雄的思想。
Edward Gibbon
爱德华·吉本
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
与你能找到的最高贵的人交往;读最好的书;与有权势者同住;但要学会独自快乐。
Saul Bellow
索尔·贝娄
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
提高理解力有两个目的:第一，增加我们自己的知识;第二，使我们能够把这些知识传递给他人。
John Locke
约翰·洛克
Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.
没有阅读，我们在黑暗中就没有光，在寒冷中就没有火。
Tamora Pierce
塔莫拉·皮尔斯
The point is, it didn't really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.
重点是，这本书讲的是什么并不重要。重要的是它的意义。
Markus Zusak
马克斯·苏萨克
For me, as for most novelists, every genuine imaginative event begins down there, with the facts, with the specific, and not with the philosophical, the ideological, or the abstract.
对我来说，就像大多数小说家一样，每一个真正富有想象力的事件都是从那里开始的，从事实开始，从具体开始，而不是从哲学、意识形态或抽象开始。
Philip Roth
菲利普·罗斯