伊恩·麥克尤恩
當代英國文學的重要代表
"We are all of us made by what we have lost as much as what we have gained."
我們都是由我們所失去的和所獲得的東西共同塑造的。
"The problem with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense."
小說的問題在于它太有道理了?，F(xiàn)實從來都沒有道理。
"The greatest human achievements are the stories we tell each other."
人類最偉大的成就是我們彼此講述的故事。
"A story is a form of telepathy."
故事是一種心靈感應(yīng)的形式。
"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."
想象力不僅是人類獨有的能力，可以設(shè)想不存在的事物，因此是所有發(fā)明和創(chuàng)新的源泉。在其最具變革性和啟示性的能力中，它是一種力量，使我們能夠同情那些我們從未分享過經(jīng)歷的人。
"The past is always tense, the future perfect."
過去總是緊張的，未來則是完美的。
"To be a writer is to be interested in everything."
成為一個作家就是對一切都感興趣。
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct."
我們都同意你的理論很瘋狂。我們之間的分歧在于它是否足夠瘋狂以至于有可能正確。
"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
愛是一種極其困難的領(lǐng)悟，即認識到除了自己之外還有其他事物是真實的。
"A personality is a full Congress of orators and pressure-groups, of children, demagogues, communists, isolationists, war-mongers, mugwumps, grafters, prayer-meetings, spiritualists, and astrologers."
一個人格就是一場完整的演說家和壓力集團的國會，里面有孩子、煽動者、共產(chǎn)主義者、孤立主義者、戰(zhàn)爭販子、騎墻派、貪污者、祈禱會、通靈者和占星家。
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