維·蘇·奈保爾
2001年獲諾貝爾文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
說(shuō)到底，作家只是他書的一半。另一半是讀者，作家從讀者那里學(xué)習(xí)。
The past is always constructed from the present.
過(guò)去總是由現(xiàn)在構(gòu)建的。
The life of a writer is absolutely solitary. He has to be alone to do his work.
作家的生活絕對(duì)是孤獨(dú)的。他必須獨(dú)自完成工作。
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.
The world is always in movement.
One isn't born one's self. One is born with mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas.
人并非生來(lái)就是自己。人出生時(shí)背負(fù)著一大堆期望，一大堆別人的想法。
The history of the world is the history of the few.
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
如果一個(gè)作家不能激起敵意，那他就已經(jīng)死了。
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
The history of men is the history of their crimes.
人類的歷史就是他們罪行的歷史。
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
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