真相是虚构小说。

Truths are fictions.

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即使是小孩子都知道现实和虚构小说之间的差别。

And even young children appreciate the distinction between reality and fiction; when you ask them, "is such-and-so real or make-believe?"

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在他独创的“非虚构小说”《冷血》大获成功之前，杜鲁门·卡波特已经在好莱坞谋得一席之地了。

Years before the huge success of his "non-fiction novel" in Cold Blood, Truman Capote had already staked out a distinctive place in Hollywood.

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It probably is at least in part, but mainly it is probably intended to be fiction or fictionalized biography.

最少一部分是，可是结果大相径庭,大篇都是虚构或文学小说化了的自传。

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Now, if we have any doubts that On the Road is mythic in itself, I just want to show you quickly two things. In 2007, On the Road had its fiftieth anniversary of publication.

现在如果还有对这本小说虚构性有所疑问，我想要迅速地让向你们展示两件事情，2007年是《在路上》出版的十五周年。

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Whereas most utterances purport to be saying something true about the actual state of things in the world, literary utterance is under no such obligation, the argument goes, and ought properly to be understood as fiction making it up as opposed to referring.

大多数言辞都是对事物的真实状况的,真实反映，而这种观点认为，文学没有这个义务，应该把文学理解为小说,它是虚构而不是实指。

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