希拉里·斯珀林
傳記文學(xué)領(lǐng)域的杰出貢獻(xiàn)者
The past is never truly past until it has been fully understood.
直到被完全理解，過(guò)去才真正成為過(guò)去。
A great biography should be like a portrait that captures both the light and the shadow.
偉大的傳記應(yīng)該像一幅肖像，既能捕捉光明也能捕捉陰影。
Letters are the biographer's gold mine; they reveal what official records conceal.
信件是傳記作者的金礦；它們揭示了官方記錄所隱藏的東西。
To write a life is to walk a tightrope between fact and interpretation.
撰寫(xiě)一生就是在事實(shí)與解讀之間走鋼絲。
The truth about a person is often hidden in the gaps between what they say and what they do.
一個(gè)人的真相往往隱藏在他們言行之間的縫隙里。
Every life leaves behind a trail of evidence; the biographer is the detective who follows it.
每個(gè)生命都會(huì)留下證據(jù)的痕跡；傳記作者就是追蹤這些痕跡的偵探。
The biographer's task is to resurrect the past, not to judge it.
傳記作者的任務(wù)是復(fù)活過(guò)去，而非評(píng)判它。
Biography is the art of making the dead live again.
傳記是讓逝者重生的藝術(shù)。