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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

一本好的小说告诉我们关于主人公的真相;但是一部糟糕的小说告诉我们关于作者的真相。

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Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.

一旦一部小说开始，我知道它是可行的，我就不会担心情节或主题。这些东西几乎会自动出现，因为角色现在正在拉故事。

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All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

所有优秀的和真正的爱书人都在床上练习愉悦和提高阅读的兴趣。没有一本书是可以被欣赏的，除非它被睡过，被梦过。

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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

单词——它们是如此的无辜和无力，就像站在字典里，在一个知道如何将它们结合在一起的人的手中，它们对善恶的力量是多么的强大。

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It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

把你的妻子放进小说里不是个好主意;反正不是你最近的妻子。

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

有些书不应该被遗忘;没有一个是不值得记住的。

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I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

有一天我读了一本书，我的整个生活被改变了。

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