People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

  • -- Barbara Kingsolver 芭芭拉?金索佛

人们喜欢阅读关于罪恶和错误的书籍,但不是他们自己的。

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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

那些不再完全相信上帝或善良的人仍然相信魔鬼。我不知道为什么。不,我确实知道为什么。邪恶总是可能的。善良永远是困难的。

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

在我所有的书中,我的很多角色都有自我毁灭的冲动。他们会准确地做他们知道是错的事情,在做错的事情中获得反常的快乐。

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

多读书。从书中期待一些大的东西,一些提高或深化的东西。不值得重读的书就不值得读。

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

每个读者都知道,书中的人物似乎比真实的人更真实。

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

一个年轻人想要保持一个健全的无神论者再怎么小心他的阅读。

The only honest people in the world are small children and drunk people.

世界上唯一诚实的人是小孩子和醉汉。