死者并未死去。他们在记忆中活着。
The past is not dead. It is not even past.
过去并没有死去。它甚至还没有过去。
History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.
历史不是过去。它是我们进化出来的组织我们对过去的无知的方法。
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
"A good book is an event in my life."
一本好书是我生命中的一个事件。
"The dead are invisible, they are not absent."
死者是看不见的，但他们并不缺席。
"You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say."
你写作不是因为你想要说些什么；你写作是因为你有话要说。
"The task of the novelist is to awaken the reader's sympathy, to make the reader care."
小说家的任务是唤醒读者的同情，让读者关心。
"History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."
历史不是过去——它是我们组织对过去无知的方法。
"When you are writing, you are trying to find out something which you don't know."
当你写作时，你试图发现一些你不知道的东西。
"The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence."
过去是一个参考的地方，而不是居住的地方。