科爾姆·托賓
愛爾蘭文學(xué)巨匠
The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.
過去總是與我們同在，因為它滋養(yǎng)著現(xiàn)在。
Writing is about making connections, not just between words, but between people and ideas.
寫作是關(guān)于建立聯(lián)系，不僅僅是文字之間的聯(lián)系，還有人與人之間、思想與思想之間的聯(lián)系。
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
心的記憶會消除壞的，放大好的。
The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.
海，海，海。它翻滾著，翻滾著，呼喚著我。進來吧，它說，進來吧。
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
世界上充滿了自童年以來從未以開放的心態(tài)面對開放門戶的人。
The past beats inside me like a second heart.
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
作為愛爾蘭人，就是要知道最終世界會傷透你的心。
The sea is a place of great beauty and great terror.
海洋是一個既美麗又恐怖的地方。
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
Writing is about making sentences. It is about the rhythm of the sentence, the music of the sentence.
寫作是關(guān)于造句。它是關(guān)于句子的節(jié)奏，句子的音樂。
The past beats inside me like a second heart.