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。
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
电影是文学、戏剧、音乐和所有视觉艺术的复杂碰撞。
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
我要写的是我要说的最后一句话。我想说，文学是我们唯一拥有的意识，它作为意识的角色必须告诉我们，我们有能力理解核能的可怕危险。
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
对于人类真正的艺术家来说，所谓的不礼貌往往是最生动和最重要的。
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
艺术和文学的支柱，就像战争的支柱一样，是金钱。
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
在过去的四五百年里，欧洲人与非洲的接触产生了大量的文学作品，这些作品把非洲描述得非常糟糕，用非常耸人听闻的语言描述非洲人。其原因与为奴隶贸易和奴隶制辩护的需要有关。
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。