Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

真理比小说更奇怪,但这是因为小说必须坚持可能性;事实并非如此。

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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

你必须写出你想写的书。如果这本书对成年人来说太难了,那么你可以为孩子们写。

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

书籍和谚语一样,其主要价值来自它们所经过的时代的印记和尊重。

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

因为,做一个陌生人自然是一种非常积极的关系;这是一种特殊的互动形式。

Strangers make restless bedfellows, especially when bedbugs are your only acquaintances.

陌生人是不安分的同床异梦者,尤其是当臭虫是你唯一的熟人时。