Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

  • -- Jessamyn West 杰萨姆·韦斯特

小说揭示了现实所掩盖的真相。

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Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

我们中的一些人可能只是在与家人、朋友、邻居进行一对一的交谈时,谈论我们生活的现实,意识到我们并不孤单,我们有权利在自己的家里保持身体和情感上的安全。

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

一个人死后,大地一般不愿把他咳回去。奇迹与地球的意志相矛盾。

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

当一个高尚的生命已经准备好步入老年,它所揭示的并不是衰微,而是不朽的最初日子。

I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.

我确实借过书,但我必须有一点选择性,因为我的旁注太有罪证了。

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

阅读使唐吉诃德成为一个绅士,但是相信他所读的使他发疯。

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.

想象和虚构占我们现实生活的四分之三以上。

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

现实是,当你不再相信它,它不会消失。

I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.

我对人们吃东西的方式和它所揭示的东西很感兴趣。