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大多数时候，我们阅读小说，是为了获得一种体验，好的小说有时弥补我们生活的缺憾，更多时候，是让我们看见我们自己，而好的小说家总是擅于发现这些生活的不同层面。
Penguin Random House 最近推出了一套 Vintage Mini 系列丛书，编辑们罗列了 20 个关键词，涵盖我们每个人普通一生中总会经历的那些事情：欲望，爱情，家庭，事业，酒精等等，同时挑选 20 位优秀小说家的作品，以 20 个关键词为名，从他们的作品中精选出几个故事，制作了一套“简书”。
入选的作家中有普鲁斯特、村上春树、托尼·莫里森、珍妮特·温特森、弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫、萨尔曼·鲁西迪、赫胥黎、朱利安·巴恩斯等。
在 Penguin Random House 的网站上，每位作家的“简书”都配上了一幅风趣动人的 gif 封面，一起看下这些可爱的“简书”吧。（译文君英文不好，而且懒，下面的金句就不献丑翻译了，大家自己感受吧……）
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好，以下是 Vintage Mini Show Time
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Desire
欲望
村上春树
“I could always sense a boundary around me and I did my best not to step over the line.”
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Love
爱
珍妮特·温特森
“The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories.”
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Babies
婴儿
安妮·恩莱特
“If someone sold the hormones you get in the second trimester of pregnancy, I would become a junkie.”
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Language
语言
xiaolu guo
“I want learn most beautiful English words because you are beautiful.”
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Motherhood
母性
海伦·辛普森
“When she was old and free and in her second adolescence, she would sleep in royally, till midday or one.”
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Fotherhood
父道
Karl Ove Knausgaard
“I walked around Stockholm’s streets, modern and feminised, with a furious nineteenth-centre man inside me.”
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Summer
夏季
劳瑞·李
“We used up the light to its last violet drop, and event then we could go to bed.”
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Jealousy
妒忌
马塞尔·普鲁斯特
“How many persons, cities, roads jealousy makes us eager thus to know.”
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Sisters
姐妹
路易莎·梅尔·阿尔科特
“Forgive each other, help each other, and begin again tomorrow.”
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Home
家
萨尔曼·鲁西迪
“‘I, too, like all migrants, am a fantasist. I build imaginary countries’.”
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Race
种族
托尼·莫里森
“No more running – from nothing. I will never run from another thing on this earth.”
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Liberty
自由
弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫
“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of the mind.”
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Swimming
游泳
罗杰·迪金
“I can dive in with a long face and what feels like a terminal case of depression, and come out a whistling idiot.”
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Work
工作
约瑟夫·海勒
“I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore.”
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Depression
抑郁
威廉·斯泰隆
“It turned out that putting together a suicide note was the most difficult task of writing that I had ever tackled.”
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Drinking
狂饮
约翰·契弗
“At last, he seemed happy. Amy wondered if he was drunk.”
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Eating
饮食
Nigella · Lawson
“You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to？”
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Fsychedelics
迷幻剂
阿尔多斯·赫克斯利
“What is needed is a new drug which will relieve and console our suffering species.”
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Clam
冷静
蒂姆·帕克斯
“Crap. If one could save the world thinking good thoughts, it would have been done time ago.”
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Death
死亡
朱利安·巴恩斯
“I suspect if I get any sort of decent dying time, I shall want music rather than books.”
近期好文荐读：
能做这样一个选题，编辑就“不枉此生”了：
揭秘新京报“纪念香港回归20年”特刊幕后
《揭秘网红工厂》采写幕后：
记者变身“主播”，只想搞清普通人离网红有多远
势·道·术：新京报是如何迎接变革的？
