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Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

  • -- George Saunders 山德斯

小说是一种产生同情心的机器，把我们从懒惰中拯救出来。生活是善良的还是残酷的?是的,文学的答案。人是好是坏?没错，文学说。但与其他认知系统不同的是，文学拒绝消除一个事实而代之以另一个事实。

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Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

一切都从你自己开始，从你决定你的人生要做什么开始。我告诉孩子们，这是一个残酷的世界，这个世界会让他们向左或向右弯曲，这取决于他们决定向哪个方向弯曲。

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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

当我们单独在一起时，我们会因尴尬而察觉到爱何时开始，何时衰退。

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I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

我只想保护动物免受野蛮、残忍、不人道和落后的仪式。

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