希拉里·曼特爾
兩次獲得布克獎的英國作家
"The dead are always with us, and we are always with them."
死者總是與我們同在，我們也總是與他們同在。
"The past is a puzzle, and the historian is the person who tries to put the pieces together."
過去是一個謎，歷史學(xué)家是試圖將碎片拼湊在一起的人。
"The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and in our minds and in the end, they're all we've got."
死者離我們并不遠。他們在我們的心中和思想中，最終，他們是我們所擁有的一切。
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
過去是一個外國；他們在那里做事的方式不同。
"The historian is a prophet looking backwards."
歷史學(xué)家是向后看的先知。
"The dead are more alive than we are, because they are complete."
死者比我們更活生生，因為他們是完整的。
"A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers."
小說應(yīng)該是一本問題的書，而不是答案的書。
"The past is always tense, the future perfect."
過去總是緊張的，未來是完美的。
"History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."
"History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."
歷史不是過去。它是我們進化出來的組織我們對過去無知的方法。
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