历史总是由胜利者书写。当两种文化冲突时,失败者会被抹去,而胜利者则书写历史书籍——这些书籍美化他们的事业,贬低被征服的敌人。
译文:喝醉了就暂且尽情欢笑,哪有工夫去发愁?近来才觉得古人书中的话,全都不可信啊!
最好的故事是那些与读者自己的经历产生共鸣,触动他们内心深处的东西。
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.