A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
文学
Literature
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。
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
好的儿童文学不仅吸引成人中的儿童，而且吸引儿童中的成人。
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
如果我们不能消灭这个国家的文学，我们至少可以阻止它从外部进入。
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。
The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature of the day.
“无意识幽默”是我对当代文学的贡献之一。
Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
菲茨杰拉德先生，我相信他的名字就是这样拼写的，他似乎认为剽窃始于家庭。
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
我喜欢时尚，因为它包含了一天的心情，当下的时刻-像音乐，文学和艺术。
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
语言知识非常有用。我有外语和文学的大学学位。
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
文学是一种写作的艺术，它可以被反复阅读;新闻是马上就能抓住的东西。
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。
Literature wasn’t intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.
文学不是关于完美的人，而是关于缺陷，非常真实和深刻的人类缺陷。
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
文学可以提醒我们，并非所有的人生都已被记录下来:还有那么多故事等着我们去讲述。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
Every man's memory is his private literature.
每个人的记忆都是他的私人文学。
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。
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
不幸的是，许多不真诚的文学和艺术，仅仅是为了达到目的而进行的，是通过欺骗公众而成功的。
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
文学的功能，通过它所有的变异，一直是让我们意识到自我的特殊性，以及自我在与社会和文化的冲突中的高度权威。从这个意义上说，文学是颠覆性的。
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.
每个人的工作，无论是文学、音乐、绘画还是其他任何工作，都是自己的一幅画像，他越想隐藏自己，他的性格就越会在不顾自己的情况下清晰地显现出来。