希拉里·曼特爾
兩次獲得布克獎(jiǎng)的英國(guó)作家
"The dead are invisible, they are not absent."
"When you are writing, you are trying to find out something which you don't know."
"A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers."
"The past is not dead ground, and to traverse it is not a sterile exercise."
過(guò)去并非死寂之地，穿越它絕非徒勞之舉。
"History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."
The past is a shadow that follows us into the future.
過(guò)去是跟隨我們進(jìn)入未來(lái)的影子。
The dead are not lost. They are just out of sight.
死者并未消失。他們只是看不見了。
The past is a story we tell ourselves about ourselves.
過(guò)去是我們對(duì)自己講述的關(guān)于自己的故事。
The dead are not absent. They are just invisible.
死者并未缺席。他們只是不可見。
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The dead are not dead to us until we have forgotten them.
只有當(dāng)我們忘記死者時(shí)，他們才對(duì)我們死去。
The past is a mirror that reflects the present.
過(guò)去是一面映照當(dāng)下的鏡子。
The dead are not gone. They are simply not here.