All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.

  • -- Katherine Paterson 凯瑟琳·佩特森

我们都时不时地把艺术和文学当作一种逃避,但如果它有什么好处的话,那就是它有一种治愈的品质——一种能开阔我们人类精神的品质。

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And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.

还有一个因素——有些人会把它描述为精神或出现在非常困难的时候,身体上和情感上。你知道的,当你真的很累的时候。所以第三个人光环是一种外表。雪人。

When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.

当我听到这个消息时,我意识到时间过得真快,每个人都在自己的旅途中,他们总是令人难以置信,他们从不去你认为他们会带你去的地方,坦白地说,这也让我觉得自己有点老了。

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude, as rude as you have to be to stop such pollution of young minds in its tracks with a quick, unignorable shock.

有礼貌的时候,也有不得不粗鲁的时候,粗鲁得像你必须做的那样,用一种迅速的、不可忽视的震惊来阻止这种对年轻人思想的污染。

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

文学没有证据。因此,我们必须明白,它不仅不能证明它说了什么,甚至不能证明它值得说出来。

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

归根结底,文学不过是木工活。你们都在与现实打交道,一种和木头一样坚硬的材料。

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

只有艺术家才能看到灵魂。但当他告诉大家他们出现在他面前时,每个人都看到了他们。