Fiction allows us to tell truths that are too slippery for nonfiction.
小说让我们能够讲述那些对非虚构作品来说太过滑溜的真相。
解释:树冠大了必然会折断,尾巴大了自然不能摆动,这是你知道的道理。
The city is an addictive machine from which there is no escape.