希拉里·曼特爾
兩次獲得布克獎的英國作家
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
世界不是由思想或想象力運(yùn)行的，而是由意見運(yùn)行的。
It is not necessary to take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
沒有必要把生活看得太嚴(yán)肅。你永遠(yuǎn)無法活著離開它。
The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.
死者離我們并不遠(yuǎn)。他們在我們的心中和腦海里，最終將我們與他們分開的只是一口氣，最后一口氣。
History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.
歷史不是過去。它是現(xiàn)在。我們帶著我們的歷史。我們就是我們的歷史。
A novel is a long piece of prose with something wrong with it.
The world is not run by those who are right. It is run by those who can convince others they are right.
世界不是由那些正確的人運(yùn)行的。它是由那些能說服別人他們正確的人運(yùn)行的。
The past is not dead. It is not even past.
The dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds.
死者并非無力。我說過，死了嗎？沒有死亡，只有世界的變化。
The truth is, we are all capable of terrible things. But we are also capable of great kindness.
事實是，我們都能夠做出可怕的事情。但我們也能表現(xiàn)出極大的善意。
You can have a lifetime of trying to get away from where you started out, and it’s only when you get there you realize you’ve brought it with you.
你可以用一生的時間試圖逃離你開始的地方，只有當(dāng)你到達(dá)那里時，你才意識到你已經(jīng)把它帶在身邊了。
The world is not run from where he thinks. Not from castle walls, but from countinghouses, not by the call of the bugle but by the click of the abacus, not by the grate and click of the broadsword but by the scrape of the pen.