托妮·莫里森
1993年獲諾貝爾文學獎
你是你自己最好的東西。
"The function of freedom is to free someone else."
自由的功用就是解放他人。
所有的水都有完美的記憶，永遠試圖回到它原來的地方。
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."
如果你臣服于空氣，你就能駕馭它。
定義屬于下定義的人，而不屬于被定義的人。
"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
解放自己是一回事，擁有那個被解放的自我是另一回事。
"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."
愛就是愛，否則就不是愛。淺薄的愛根本不算愛。
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
我們會死。那可能是生命的意義。但我們創造語言。那可能是衡量我們生命的標準。
如果你想飛翔，就必須放棄那些拖累你的東西。
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
如果你想讀的書還沒有被寫出來，那么你必須自己寫出來。
The past is always there, but it's not the only thing that's there.
過去永遠在那里，但它不是唯一存在的東西。
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
You are your best thing.
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