Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.

  • -- Wilbur Smith 威尔伯·史密斯

文学带给我们许多伟大的英雄。现实生活总是胜过他们。

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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

对那些把人看成一体的老小说家来说,事情要容易得多。总的来说,他们的英雄是彻头彻尾的好人,他们的坏人则是彻头彻尾的坏人。

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

我认为我们会发现,经验,所有知识的真正来源和基础,总是证实它的真理。

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

你花了一辈子的时间去做一些他们把人送进疯人院的事情。