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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

文学是奢侈品;小说是必需品。

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I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

我不把我的经历写下来，但我有很好的记忆力。我有很多书，里面有我想到的短语我就写下来。我就是这样写歌的。我需要一行诗，我要通读所有的书，找到它，找到正确的韵律和一切。

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All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

所有糟糕的文学作品都建立在不完善的洞察力或模仿的基础上，而模仿可以被定义为“二手的”。

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

科学就是所有总是成功的食谱的总和。其余的都是文学作品。

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If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

如果一本书写得好，我总是觉得它太短了。

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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

小说揭示了现实所掩盖的真相。

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Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

小说就是把枯燥的部分去掉的生活。

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