朱利安·巴恩斯
以《終結(jié)的感覺》獲得布克獎
藝術(shù)不是關(guān)于你看到了什么，而是你讓別人看到了什么。
"We live in time—it holds us and moulds us—but I’ve never felt I understood it very well."
我們生活在時(shí)間中——它抓住我們并塑造我們——但我從未覺得我非常理解它。
過去是一個異國；他們在那里做事的方式不同。
愛只是一個系統(tǒng)，為了讓某人在做愛后叫你親愛的。
我不相信上帝，但我想念他。
你把兩個從未在一起的人放在一起；有時(shí)世界會改變，有時(shí)不會。他們可能會崩潰和燃燒，或者他們可能會點(diǎn)燃并照亮天空。
"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."
歷史是記憶的不完美與文獻(xiàn)的不足相遇時(shí)產(chǎn)生的確定性。
"Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books."
書說：她這么做是因?yàn)?。生活說：她這么做了。書是向你解釋事情的地方；生活是事情不被解釋的地方。我不奇怪有些人更喜歡書。
The more you read, the more you will see that the same stories are told over and over again, just with different characters and settings.
你讀得越多，你就會發(fā)現(xiàn)同樣的故事一遍又一遍地被講述，只是角色和背景不同。
We live in a world where people are judged by their worst actions, not their best.
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.
最大的愛國主義是當(dāng)你的國家行為不光彩、愚蠢、惡毒時(shí)告訴它。
History isn't what happened. History is just what historians tell us.
歷史不是發(fā)生了什么。歷史只是歷史學(xué)家告訴我們的東西。
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
我們編造恐怖來幫助我們應(yīng)對真實(shí)的恐怖。