A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
文学
Literature
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
伟大文学的美妙之处在于，它将读者转变为作家。
This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not alone.
这就是伟大的文学。它读起来像真理，永远粘在你身上，让你知道你并不孤单。
There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.
在年轻人的世界里，关于贫困的文学作品并不多见。我不知道这是为什么，但我想我确实感到了差距。
What people value in their books and thus what they count as literature really tells you more about them than it does about the book.
人们在他们的书中看重什么，因此他们认为什么是文学，实际上比书本身更能说明他们的问题。
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
我没有学生朋友可以和我谈论文学。我的导师是个很好的人，很有魅力，但是他没有文学鉴赏力。
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
这是文学和读者之间最亲密的关系:他们把文本当作自己的一部分，当作一种财产。
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。
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。
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
哦，文学，哦，光荣的艺术，它是如何吞噬我们骨髓的。它从我们身上挖出填充物，把我们扔到一边。唉!
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
经典只是原始文学。它们与原始机械、原始音乐和原始医学属于同一类。
The great danger in modern literature is that it would have us accept as a description of reality, what is actually an interpretation of it.
现代文学最大的危险在于，它会让我们接受对现实的描述，也就是对现实的解释。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
你是否只从那些仰慕你、温柔待你、支持你的人身上吸取了教训?那些与你争竞，与你争竞的，岂不是给你大教训吗?
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
一个真正伟大的图书馆包含了一些冒犯所有人的东西。
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
文学没有证据。因此，我们必须明白，它不仅不能证明它说了什么，甚至不能证明它值得说出来。
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。
Every man's memory is his private literature.
每个人的记忆都是他的私人文学。
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。