50部小說裡的吉光片羽

在www.shortlist.com的網站上看到一篇滿有趣的文章，標題是：「在小說中學到的50個人生智慧」（50 Pieces of Wisdom From Novels）。說是「文章」，其實沒幾個字，該文選出了50本書，每本摘出一句書裡的智慧箴言。

文中並未提及選書的標準為何，不過瀏覽一下書名和作者，發現幾乎都是經典名作或知名作家。書蟲們可以在網頁上點選自己讀過或聽過的書，看看本文作者所摘錄的字句是否也讓你深有共鳴。

以下摘錄一些自己覺得有意思的句子。希望有一天也能陸續閱讀這些名作。

村上春樹，《關於跑步，我說的其實是……》：
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."（痛是難免的，苦是甘願的。）

法蘭岑，《自由》：
"You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to."

瑪格麗特‧愛特伍，《盲眼刺客》：
"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."

卡謬，《墮落》：
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

阿莎嘉‧克莉絲蒂，《牧師公館謀殺案》（Murder at the vicarage）
"The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools."

艾茵‧蘭德，《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》
"Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them."

Bret Easton Ellis，《愛情磁場》（The Rules of Attraction）：
"No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other."

狄更斯，《孤星血淚》（Great Expectations）：
"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

普拉絲，《瓶中美人》：
"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."

托爾斯泰，《戰爭與和平》：
"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."

赫胥黎，《美麗新世界》：
"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."

克萊頓，《失落的世界》：
"All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong."

沙林傑，《麥田捕手》：
"All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."

卡波堤，《第凡內早餐》：
"Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself."

哈波‧李，《梅岡城故事》：
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."

凱魯亞克，《在路上》：
“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”

歐威爾，《1984》：
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

保羅‧科爾賀，《我坐在琵卓河畔，哭泣》：
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”

馮內果，《夜母》（Mother Night）：
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."