希拉里·曼特爾
兩次獲得布克獎(jiǎng)的英國作家
死者從未遠(yuǎn)離我們。他們在我們心中，在我們腦海里，在我們周圍。
A writer’s life is a life of interruptions.
作家的生活是一種不斷被打斷的生活。
The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.
過去是一個(gè)裝滿光的櫥柜，你只需要找到打開門的鑰匙。
The facts of life are very simple, but the stories we tell about them are very complicated.
生活的真相很簡單，但我們講述的故事卻非常復(fù)雜。
The present is always changing, but the past is fixed.
當(dāng)下總是在變，但過去是固定的。
You don’t get on by being original. You get on by being quiet and by stepping gently sideways.
你不是靠標(biāo)新立異獲得成功。你是靠保持沉默和小心翼翼地側(cè)身而行。
The dead are invisible, but they are not absent.
死者雖不可見，但他們并未缺席。
A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.
The past is not dead. It is not even past.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
世界上充滿了顯而易見的事物，但沒有人注意到它們。
The dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.