A good sentence should have a kind of tension in it.
一个好句子应该包含某种张力。
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
过去从未消逝，它甚至还未成为过去。
Every novel is an experiment.
每部小说都是一次实验。
Writing is a way of thinking.
写作是一种思考方式。
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."
你无法回到过去改变开头，但你可以从现在开始改变结局。
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
真相很少是纯粹的，也从不简单。
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
我们就是我们假装成为的样子，所以我们必须小心我们假装成为什么。
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
对付不自由世界的唯一方法就是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反抗。
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."
故事没有开始或结束：人们任意选择那个经验时刻来回顾或展望。
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
世界击垮每个人，而后，有些人在破碎处变得坚强。