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Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

  • -- Paul Theroux 保罗·泰鲁

小说写作、阅读和购书，一直都是一小部分人的活动，即使是在受教育程度最高的社会中也是如此。

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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

据我所知，只有一小部分数学家，甚至包括那些柏拉图主义者，接受这样的观点，即可能存在真实但不可知的数学事实。

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Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.

聪明不是重罪，但大多数社会认为至少是轻罪。

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The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

少数人有时是对的;大多数人总是错的。

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Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

社会可能会被埋藏在地下的丑陋所压垮。

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