安娜·伯恩斯
以《送奶工》獲得布克獎(jiǎng)
"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
世界是一個(gè)舞臺(tái)，但劇本選角很糟糕。
"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
男人的臉是他的自傳。女人的臉是她的小說(shuō)。
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
擺脫誘惑的唯一方法就是屈服于它。
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
經(jīng)驗(yàn)是我們給自己的錯(cuò)誤取的名字。
"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
每個(gè)圣人都有過(guò)去，每個(gè)罪人都有未來(lái)。
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
我們都生活在陰溝里，但仍有人仰望星空。
"I can resist everything except temptation."
除了誘惑，我可以抵抗一切。
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
生活是世界上最罕見(jiàn)的事情。大多數(shù)人只是存在，僅此而已。
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
真相很少是純粹的，也從來(lái)不簡(jiǎn)單。
"There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations."
沒(méi)有所謂的新想法。那是不可能的。我們只是把許多舊想法放進(jìn)一個(gè)心理萬(wàn)花筒里，轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng)它們，它們就會(huì)形成新的、奇特的組合。
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