When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

  • -- Roddy Doyle 罗迪·道尔

在我成长的过程中,考试制度不允许你写小说,所以你从来没有写过小说。

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More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.

世界上越来越多的人爱上了自己的爱人,只要看看报纸,就会发现这个时代对任何慷慨和冒险的激情流露是多么地同情。

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

非小说类作品与头脑对话。小说能打动人心。诗歌与灵魂对话。这是美的本质。痛苦的本质。它使人赏心悦目。

Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality.

然而,小说有时会让人对现实失望。

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

当他们告诉你要长大,他们的意思是停止成长。