Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

  • -- Jane Yolen 简·约伦

文学是一种通过文字传播的疾病,通常在儿童时期感染。

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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

当然,艺术的错觉是让人相信伟大的文学作品与生活息息相关,但事实恰恰相反。生活是无定形的,文学是形式的。

Literature is the question minus the answer.

文学就是问题减去答案。