Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

现代悲剧作家不得不写短篇小说;如果他们写长篇故事,快乐就会悄然而至。这样的故事就像刺;短暂,但纯粹是痛苦。

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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

幻想很难是对现实的逃避。这是一种理解的方式。

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

如果是虚构的,那最好是真实的。