Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

  • -- Barbara Kingsolver 芭芭拉?金索佛

小说和散文可以为理论上的陌生人创造同理心。

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Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. ln those transparent moments we know other people's joys and sorrows, and we care about their concerns as if they were our own.

痛苦和快乐教会我们,如果我们允许它们,如何跨越同理心,让我们进入另一个人的灵魂和心灵。在那些透明的时刻,我们知道别人的喜怒哀乐,我们关心他们的关心,就像他们是我们自己的一样。

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。

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

小说的第一个谎言是作者给混乱的生活安排了秩序:时间顺序,或者作者选择的任何顺序。

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

愤怒和偏执是正确理解的敌人。