伊恩·麥克尤恩
當代英國文學的重要代表
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.
寫作的行為是一種樂觀的行為。如果你覺得它不重要，你就不會費心去做。
To be a writer, one must have a certain arrogance, a belief that one's own voice is worth hearing.
要成為一名作家，必須有一定的傲慢，相信自己的聲音值得被聽到。
The greatest cruelty is our casual blindness to the despair of others.
最大的殘忍是我們對他人絕望的隨意忽視。
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
應對不自由世界的唯一方法是變得如此絕對自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一種反抗。
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
當我們愛的時候，我們總是努力變得比現在更好。當我們努力變得更好時，我們周圍的一切也會變得更好。
We are all of us made by what we have lost as much as by what we have gained.
我們都是由我們所失去的和我們所獲得的共同塑造的。
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
過去是一個陌生的國度；他們在那里做事的方式不同。
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