A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
文学
Literature
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.
当你阅读迷幻药文献时，所谓的天然迷幻药和人工合成迷幻药是有区别的。
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
文学是我向同胞们举起镜子的召唤，这对我来说很自然;在开放的发明领域，我并不是没有希望给他们带来快乐。
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
当代的艺术和文学并没有给那一代人带来足够的改变，让他们可以接受或拒绝它。
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。
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
一旦一个人产生了对文学的渴望，除了钢笔的刮擦，什么也治不好。但是如果你没有笔，我想你必须想尽办法去抓。
I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
我有一个哥哥对文学很感兴趣，所以我很早就接触了文学和戏剧。我父亲有时从事音乐喜剧工作。
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
当然，艺术的错觉是让人相信伟大的文学作品与生活息息相关，但事实恰恰相反。生活是无定形的，文学是形式的。
It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
有趣的是，所有的革命文学作品都是牧师写的。这些人参与了一场革命，反对世界上有史以来最强大的国家。
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。
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
伟大的文学作品应该对读者有一些好处:它必须使读者的感知速度加快，使他们的辨别能力增强，使他们的个人见解更加成熟。
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
对于那些在远处观看的人来说，文学之乡是一片仙境，但是，就像其他所有的风景一样，走近一点，魅力就会消失，荆棘和荆棘就会显现出来。
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
很少有人会离开学者安全的隐居生活，远离文坛和学术界的宁静，而成为不友善和敌对思想的批判对象。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.
文学是一种需要拥有的力量，而不是一堆需要研究的对象。
All that is literature seeks to communicate power: all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.
所有的文学都是为了传播力量:所有的文学都不是为了传播知识。
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
文学让你进入另一种精神世界。同理心的产生必然会影响你对他人的行为。
I think literature reveals more about us than history does.
我认为文学比历史更能揭示我们。
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
不要要求生活在宁静的时代。那里没有文学。
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
科学就是所有总是成功的食谱的总和。其余的都是文学作品。