故事圣手毛姆：如何对一个人知根知底

分享《刀锋》中的一段话,细节满满。 I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they were born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived with them. 了解一个人，不论男女，不但要了解其本身，也得了解其出生的环境、居住的城市公寓、学步的场所、儿时的游戏、外婆讲的故事、吃的饭菜、求学之处、从事的运动、吟咏的诗篇以及信仰。这些因素深入他们的骨髓。你不可能听别人说说就算了解了他们，而非得跟他们同吃同住才能够知根知底。