Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

  • -- Barbara Kingsolver 芭芭拉?金索佛

好的小说创造同理心。一部小说带你去某个地方,让你透过另一个人的眼睛去看另一个人,去过另一种生活。

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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

积极的社会情感,如同情和同理心,通常对我们有好处,我们想鼓励它们。但我们知道如何最可靠地抚养孩子去关心他人的痛苦吗?我不确定。

The novel, if it be anything, is contemporary history, an exact and complete reproduction of social surroundings of the age we live in.

这部小说可以说是一部现代史,是对我们所处时代社会环境的准确而完整的再现。

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

当乔纳斯回到家,告诉他的妻子他迟到了三天,因为他被鲸鱼吞了。

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

愤怒的对立面不是平静,而是同情。