阿蘭·霍林赫斯特
以《美麗線條》獲得布克獎(jiǎng)
對(duì)待好建議的唯一方法就是傳遞它。它對(duì)自己從來(lái)沒(méi)有任何用處。
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
我們都在陰溝里，但仍有人仰望星空。
"I can resist everything except temptation."
除了誘惑，我什么都能抵抗。
"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
浪漫的本質(zhì)就是不確定性。
"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
經(jīng)驗(yàn)不過(guò)是人們給自己的錯(cuò)誤起的名字。
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
真相很少是純粹的，也從不簡(jiǎn)單。
定義就是限制。
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
擺脫誘惑的唯一方法就是屈服于它。
"Beauty is a form of genius—is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation."
美是一種天才的形式——實(shí)際上比天才更高，因?yàn)樗恍枰忉尅?/div>
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
過(guò)去是一個(gè)異國(guó)他鄉(xiāng)；他們做事的方式不同。