A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
文学
Literature
I write-down to speak-up.
我写下来说出来。
All literature is gossip.
一切文学都是流言蜚语。
Literature precedes genre.
文学先于流派。
Without literature, life is hell.
没有文学，生活就是地狱。
A stream cannot rise about its source.
小溪不能绕着源头上涨。
Literature is the immortality of speech.
文学是不朽的语言。
Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
文学帮助我们超越自我。
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
后现代主义使文学失去了它的读者。
Literature is the question minus the answer.
文学就是问题减去答案。
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
文学上的拖沓会使我紧张。
Every man's memory is his private literature.
每个人的记忆都是他的私人文学。
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
文学是陈词滥调的编曲。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
文学是一种人类活动，它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。
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。
There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.
有些人认为，我们需要更多的文学作品，需要一个大型国际出版社，需要一份伟大的和平报纸，诸如此类。我对这个想法持怀疑态度。
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
文学拯救了被诅咒的人，文学鼓舞和引导着恋人，驱散了绝望，或许在这种情况下可以拯救世界。
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
文学能够也应该做的是改变那些教那些不读书的人的人。
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
文学的困难不在于写作，而在于写出你的意思;不是要影响你的读者，而是要像你希望的那样准确地影响他。