All literature is gossip.

  • -- Truman Capote 杜鲁门·卡波特

一切文学都是流言蜚语。

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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

文学史上最著名的,也是最难理解的事实之一是,至少在西欧文学中,散文式小说很晚才出现,而在两种伟大的古典语言中,我们所谓的散文式小说却相对缺乏。

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

我既非常成功,又非常左倾;这是一个活生生的例子,说明你既能站在左边,又能上八卦专栏,还能因为赚到的钱而被嫉妒。

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

归根结底,文学不过是木工活。你们都在与现实打交道,一种和木头一样坚硬的材料。

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

所有讲这故事的人都增添了一些新的东西,所有听到这故事的人都把它放大了。