All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.

  • -- Katherine Paterson 凯瑟琳·佩特森

我们都时不时地把艺术和文学当作一种逃避,但如果它有什么好处的话,那就是它有一种治愈的品质——一种能开阔我们人类精神的品质。

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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

人们总是害怕改变。当电被发明时,人们害怕电,不是吗?人们害怕煤炭,他们害怕汽油发动机……无知总是存在的,无知导致恐惧。但随着时间的推移,人们会接受他们的硅主子。

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.

我很清楚,许多人会说,人只要活在身体里,就不可能与灵和天使说话;许多人会说这一切都是幻想,另一些人会说我讲这些事情是为了获得信任,还有一些人会提出其他的反对意见。

If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped me out with lines I shouldn't have known, chords I shouldn't have known. Every once in a while I get lines from somewhere, and I think, I better write this down.

如果你要做什么,灵魂会来帮助你。他们帮助我写出了我不应该知道的台词,我不应该知道的和弦。每隔一段时间我就会从某处得到一些台词,我想,我最好把它写下来。

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

我认为写文学作品应该给人带来乐趣。还应该讲些什么呢?它不是核物理。它必须给人带来快乐,否则就一文不值。

He pronounces judgment upon a needle, and (at the same time) swallows a large pole.

他(同时)吞下一根大杆子。

Without literature, life is hell.

没有文学,生活就是地狱。