科爾姆·托賓
愛爾蘭文學(xué)巨匠
沉默是喜悅的最佳使者。
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
孤獨(dú)就是與眾不同，與眾不同就是孤獨(dú)。
When you are young, you think you will be happy when you are older. But then you get older and you realize you were happy when you were young.
年輕時(shí)，你以為長大后就會(huì)幸福。但長大后，你意識(shí)到年輕時(shí)的自己才是幸福的。
The past beats inside me like a second heart.
Love is not about possession. It's about memory.
愛不是關(guān)于占有。它是關(guān)于記憶。
The problem with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
詞語的問題在于你永遠(yuǎn)不知道它們?cè)?jīng)過誰的嘴。
Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
The past beats inside me like a second heart.
Memory is a strange thing, it doesn't work like I thought it did. Memory is not a simple thing at all.
記憶是個(gè)奇怪的東西，它不像我想的那樣運(yùn)作。記憶根本不是一件簡單的事。
The truth is not always the best story.
真相并不總是最好的故事。
Silence is not nothing. Silence is something.
沉默不是虛無。沉默是一種存在。
The novel is a way of thinking about the world, not just a way of describing it.
小說是一種思考世界的方式，而不僅僅是描述世界的方式。