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Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds.

  • -- Elspeth Huxley 赫胥黎

非洲是一个残酷的国家;它带走你的心，把它磨成粉末状的石头——没有人在意。

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Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

小说是一种产生同情心的机器，把我们从懒惰中拯救出来。生活是善良的还是残酷的?是的,文学的答案。人是好是坏?没错，文学说。但与其他认知系统不同的是，文学拒绝消除一个事实而代之以另一个事实。

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The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

南非最大的问题是我们的时间表被打乱了。历史上，政治上，精神上，经济上，在人们的头脑里，在人们的头脑里。

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All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

我们所有的人——你和我，甚至是在非洲前线的成千上万的士兵——我们非常希望战争能够结束，但只是在学术上。

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Although I did end up trying out several different fields before committing to acting, I knew in the deepest part of heart that I wanted to be an actress.

虽然在我投身演艺之前，我确实尝试了几个不同的领域，但我内心深处知道，我想成为一名演员。

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No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

任何铁器都不能象在适当的位置放置一段时间那样有力地刺穿心脏。

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I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

我要告诉你一件事，这是一个残酷的世界。

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