A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
文学
Literature
Science is uneasy with beginnings. Mythology is concerned above all with what happened "in the beginning". Its signature is "Once upon a time".
科学一开始就不稳定。神话首先与“起初”发生的事情有关。它的签名是“从前”。
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
毫无疑问，亚里士多德的伟大贡献之一，就是他如此清晰地构想出这样一个真理，即文学是一种不断发展并具有历史的东西。
As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
随着社会的多元化，读文学的人越来越少。读者很难通过文学来理解我的观点。
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。
All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.
所有的文学作品都是由作者认为很酷的东西组成的。读者会喜欢这本书到一定程度，他会同意作者关于什么是酷的观点。
All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.
我们都时不时地把艺术和文学当作一种逃避，但如果它有什么好处的话，那就是它有一种治愈的品质——一种能开阔我们人类精神的品质。
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。
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
我从一个有艺术天赋的男孩开始……作为一个视觉艺术家…我想这就是我现在的样子，在我十几岁的时候，我开始阅读严肃的文学作品。
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
没有历史和文学的律师是机械师，只是一个泥瓦匠;如果他对这些有一些了解，他可以大胆地自称为建筑师。
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
人民文学是了解人民真实情况的伟大教科书。当时的文字所显示出的人民素质是任何历史重建都无法做到的。
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
那么，网络，或者图案，一个既感性又有逻辑性的网络，一个优雅而富有内涵的结构:那就是风格，那是文学艺术的基础。
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.
我不认为有太多的文学作品。我认为大部分都是基于种族的，人们不认为这是阶级文学。
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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!
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.
只有更粗犷的凡人才应该努力跟上当前的文学潮流。
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。
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。
Modern literature spurns moralizing in favor of demoralizing.
现代文学摒弃道德说教而倾向于道德败坏。
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。